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4. Short Report
Pages 60-61

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... Recently, due to budget and schedule constraints, your office began to consider modifications to the original mission concept and asked the CAA to assess the scientific merits of a descoped NGST with a 6-meter-class mirror. At its meeting on April 9-10, 2001, the CAA received presentations from the NGST project office; the AASC's Panel on Ultraviolet, Optical, and Infrared Astronomy from Space; Alan Dressier, chair of NASA's Origins subcommittee; and groups involved in large ground-based telescope programs that might have complementary near-infrared capabilities.
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... It will, for example, provide a unique capability to observe newborn star clusters at redshifts greater than 5. With the capabilities to achieve this goal and comparable milestones addressing the other major science goals listed above, the descoped NGST retains the priority recommended by the Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee.
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