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PAPERBACK list:$21.00 Web:$18.90 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Free Resources Sign in to download PDF book and chapters PDF EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Space Studies Board Annual Report 2005 Principal-Investigator-Led Missions in the Space Sciences Other Related Titles A Performance Assessment of NASA's Astrophysics Program (2007) Space Studies Board (SSB) Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA) Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Page 45   E-mail  Facebook  Digg  Stumble  Twitter More The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Appendix Acronyms AANM Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium ACS Advanced Camera for Surveys ARISE Advanced Radio Interferometry between Space and Earth CGRO Compton Gamma Ray Observatory CHIPS Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer CMB Cosmic microwave background COBE Cosmic Background Explorer Con-X Constellation-X-ray Observatory COS Cosmic Origins Spectrograph CPU Committee on the Physics of the Universe DOE U.S. Department of Energy ESA European Space Agency EUVE Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer EXIST Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope FBC Faster, better, cheaper FUSE Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer GALEX Galaxy Evolution Explorer GLAST Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope GRB Gamma-ray burst HETE-2 High Energy Transient Explorer mission HST Hubble Space Telescope Page 45 Front Matter (R1-R14) Summary (1-3) 1 Introduction (4-6) 2 Summary of AANM Survey and Q2C Report Recommendations (7-11) 3 Astrophysics Program Plans and Progress (12-27) 4 Slowdown of Progress--Analysis and Appraisal (28-38) 5 Findings and Recommendations (39-44) Appendix: Acronyms (45-46)

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A Performance Assessment of Nasa’s Astrophysics Program Appendix Acronyms AANM Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium ACS Advanced Camera for Surveys ARISE Advanced Radio Interferometry between Space and Earth CGRO Compton Gamma Ray Observatory CHIPS Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer CMB Cosmic microwave background COBE Cosmic Background Explorer Con-X Constellation-X-ray Observatory COS Cosmic Origins Spectrograph CPU Committee on the Physics of the Universe DOE U.S. Department of Energy ESA European Space Agency EUVE Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer EXIST Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope FBC Faster, better, cheaper FUSE Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer GALEX Galaxy Evolution Explorer GLAST Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope GRB Gamma-ray burst HETE-2 High Energy Transient Explorer mission HST Hubble Space Telescope

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A Performance Assessment of Nasa’s Astrophysics Program JDEM Joint Dark Energy Mission JWST Next Generation Space Telescope, now known as the James Webb Space Telescope LISA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna LSST Large-aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope MIDEX Medium-class Explorer NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NICMOS Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer NRC National Research Council NSF National Science Foundation NuSTAR Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array OAT Office of Aerospace Technology Q2C Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century RHESSI Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager SAFIR Single-aperture Far Infrared Observatory SDO Solar Dynamics Observer SEU Structure and Evolution of the Universe SIM SIM PlanetQuest (formerly called the Space Interferometry Mission) SMD Science Mission Directorate SMEX Small Explorer Program SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy Spitzer Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly SIRTF, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility) STIS Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph SWAS Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite Swift Multi-wavelength observatory dedicated to the study of gamma-ray burst science TPF Terrestrial Planet Finder WISE Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer WFC3 Wide Field Camera 3 (HST) WMAP Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe XTE X-ray Timing Explorer

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