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6. Discussion
6. Discussion
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What have the trends been in basic research support in astronomy, for example, grant funding, growth in number of astronomers, proposal success rate, average grant size and duration, publication support citations, and other measures of research vitality?
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The recent failure of one of MST's remaining gyroscopes is an example. Each HST space shuttle servicing mission is a risky operation.
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First, records often have not been kept in a manner that avouch allow easy access. Although the "top-down" records of agency funding are available from various statistical abstracts of federal funding, records broken down by discipline or even records of individual grants are difficult to obtain.
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However, the committee believes that understanding long-term trends in support is beneficial to the agencies and the Congress and that this area needs improvement in the development of a common classification scheme for contracts and grants, in the centralized collection of such information when that has not been done, and in the inclusion of data from at least eight years ago in the agencies' funding databases. A key part of such a program would be to ensure that changes in agency management structure do not inhibit the ability to track funding for subdisciplines in astronomy and other fields.
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