Gravity probe B by NASA

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Launched in April 2004, the satellite used four precision-engineered gyroscopes to measure two effects predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity.

The first, called the geodetic effect, predicts that our planet's mass leaves a dent in space-time that should tilt each gyroscope by 0.0018 degrees per year.

The second, called the frame dragging effect, predicts how much the Earth's rotation drags space-time around with it.

The initial measurements elated space scientists: gyroscopes tilted as predicted. But closer examination of the results suggested that gyroscopes tilt could be attributed to electrostatic effects -- torques on gyroscopes that mimic relativistic effects.

The GP-B team persists in analyzing the old gyroscopic data and claims that they are "closing in on Einstein". The method they use is under question. They manipulate the data, discard all contradictory stuff, select only the numbers that fit the desirable outcome, shift, sift, and otherwise filter the data. Using this method, one can create anything one wishes. Cheating is the word.

This is another very expensive and wasteful project created to vindicate Einstein. Space does not warp, stretch, or shrink. Therefore, there could be no dent in space and it cannot be dragged.

When the projects LIGO and LISA will fail to detect gravitational waves from distant binaries simply because these waves cannot be formed by space, the idea of both space-time effects will self-destruct together with the theory of general relativity.

A footnote:  May 20, 2008, the NASA closed the project Probe B with the grade: "failed". Amen!