This event should also reinforce the extent of our commitment to a space station, space astronomy, planetary exploration and manufacture in space and other human efforts.

"Early history space astronomy: Issues of patronage, management and control."

People are really interested in NASA and space astronomy.

Oberg J., Notes on Soviet space astronomy, Sky & Telescope, vol.53, 92, 1977.

During the 1960s Skylark evolved into an excellent platform for space astronomy, with its ability to point at the Sun, Moon, or a star.

Robert Bruce Smith is equally adept at in-depth knowledge of quantum mechanics and physics, including deep space astronomy and gravitational waves.

He was an early proponent of space optical astronomy in general, and in particular of the project that became Hubble Space Telescope.

This year however marks the rebirth of space astronomy for the 1980s.

The next purely Soviet space astronomy satellites will involve only the relatively simple hardware of radio telescopes (Box above).

The outlook for American space astronomy looks fairly grim, after years when it has led the world.