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Public support and enthusiasm for astronomy have been strong in the final decades of the twentieth century. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than with the Hubble Space Telescope (HCT), a grand endeavor, which is enabling astronomers to make giant strides in understanding our universe, our place in it, and our relation to it. The NASAs first infrared observatory, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), promises to take the crucial next steps towards understanding the formation of stars and galaxies. Toward their completion, the HST and Beyond Committee identifies major goals, whose accomplishment will justify a commitment well into the next century: (1) the detailed study of the birth and evolution of normal galaxies such as the Milky Way; (2) the detection of Earth-like planets around other stars and the search for evidence of life on them; (3) NASA should develop a space observatory of aperture 4m or larger, optimized for imaging and spectroscopy over the wavelength range 1-5 microns; and (4) NASA should develop the capability for space interferometry. Dressler, Alan (Editor) and Brown, Robert A. and Davidsen, Arthur F. and Ellis, Richard S. and Freedman, Wendy L. and Green, Richard F. and Hauser, Michael G. and Kirshner, Robert P. and Kulkarni, Shrinivas and Lilly, Simon J. and Margon, Bruce H. and Porco, Carolyn C. and Richstone, Douglas O. and Stockman, H. S. and Thronson, Harley A., Jr. and Tonry, John L. and Truran, James and Weiler, Edward J. Goddard Space Flight Center HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE; INFRARED ASTRONOMY; ULTRAVIOLET ASTRONOMY; OBSERVATORIES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SPACE INFRARED TELESCOPE FACILITY; UNIVERSE; SPECTROSCOPY; SPACEBORNE ASTRONOMY; MILKY WAY GALAXY; INTERFEROMETRY; GALACTIC EVOLUTION; BIRTH; APERTURES...

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