Kennedy's Search For Antimatter

Kennedy Space Center is planning on sending a machine into space to search for antimatter and dark matter. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer or AMS was built at CERN in Switzerland where it was then sent to Noordwijk, Netherlands to be adjusted and searched for mistakes. There they decided to switch out the superconducting magnet with the magnet from the original AMS-01 wich was in space in 1998. After the netherlands it was sent back to CERN and then to the Keendedy Space Center in Florida. It lies resting there until its much antisipated launch later on. If you wish to read the article you can see the link here. --- link

This article seemed really interesting to me because it seems like our country's space program doesn't give or recieve any help from other country's space programs yet here we are working with switzerland and the netherlands to get an AMS into space. I was also captivated by the article because it was about antimatter which is kind of a weird thing to be in existence. If we do find that that there is a lot of darkmatter and antimatter in space we might have to rethink what our universe is made of because althought a lot of scientist say are universe is mostly hydrogen some say that 90% of our universe is made of dark matter.