Sentences with phrase «u.s. space astronomy»
If we're not careful, this could lead to the end of the golden age of U.S. space astronomy.»
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And on 15 August, a midterm assessment of the National Academy of Sciences's (NAS) 2010 Decadal Report, which reviews U.S. priorities for astronomy and astrophysics, strongly recommended NASA to restore support to the space observatory this decade, and to help restore the mission to its original full capacity.
In tweets, Spergel offered a blunter assessment, writing that the «U.S. is abandoning its leadership in space astronomy,» and that the proposed cuts «imperil not only WFIRST but any future major mission.»
Since the postwar period, these OSPs in astronomy have been common U.S. practice, and while they have mostly been ius non scriptum, they have been alluded to in reports of the NSF's Division of Astronomical Sciences, 8 and largely followed by federally funded agencies (NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, for example, among the most expensive U.S. astronomical facilities, 9 is open to any astronomer in the world10).
Astro - H is Japan's sixth X-ray astronomy mission, and is being developed at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (ISAS / JAXA) with significant collaboration from U.S. (NASA / GSFC) and Japanese institutions.
The U.S. space program in astronomy is generally vigorous and strong.
The Space Telescope Science Institute's (STScI's) 1999 survey of astronomy (discussed in AAS CSWA, 2000) documented substantial growth in the field between 1992 and 1999 — a 33 percent increase in the number of Ph.D. astronomers active in 32 U.S. departments of astronomy and in four observatories with equivalent science facilities.