The NASA Swift Boost mission has launched from Marshall Islands on July 3 at 4:36AM Eastern time after a couple of delays, and the agency has started preparing it for its ultimate goal: To rescue the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory,

NASA on Friday launched a historic rescue mission to save an aging telescope from falling toward Earth. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood has the details.

Nasa has launched a spacecraft to prevent a telescope falling back to earth. The Swift Observatory has been detecting some of the most powerful explosions in the Universe.

A first-of-its-kind mission launched Friday in the hopes of preventing NASA’s Swift Observatory from dropping out of low-Earth orbit.