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Letter Report
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... The following quotations from the reports of these committees express the great importance of an advanced x-ray telescope to the U.S. space research program: q A Strategy for Space Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 1980s, report of the Committee on Space Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Space Science Board, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
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... This new committee structure should be available soon to conduct a comprehensive assessment of any AXAF program modifications that might be proposed. In the meantime, the published corpus of NRC advice on AXAF unambiguously asserts the vital importance of this program for scientific advances in the astronomical disciplines.
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