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Acronyms

AANM Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium

ACS Advanced Camera for Surveys

ARISE Advanced Radio Interferometry between Space and Earth

CGRO Compton Gamma Ray Observatory

CHIPS Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer

CMB Cosmic microwave background

COBE Cosmic Background Explorer

Con-X Constellation-X-ray Observatory

COS Cosmic Origins Spectrograph

CPU Committee on the Physics of the Universe

DOE U.S. Department of Energy

ESA European Space Agency

EUVE Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer

EXIST Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope

FBC Faster, better, cheaper

FUSE Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer

GALEX Galaxy Evolution Explorer

GLAST Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope

GRB Gamma-ray burst

HETE-2 High Energy Transient Explorer mission

HST Hubble Space Telescope

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JDEM Joint Dark Energy Mission

JWST Next Generation Space Telescope, now known as the James Webb Space Telescope

LISA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

LSST Large-aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope

MIDEX Medium-class Explorer

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NICMOS Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer

NRC National Research Council

NSF National Science Foundation

NuSTAR Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array

OAT Office of Aerospace Technology

Q2C Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century

RHESSI Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager

SAFIR Single-aperture Far Infrared Observatory

SDO Solar Dynamics Observer

SEU Structure and Evolution of the Universe

SIM SIM PlanetQuest (formerly called the Space Interferometry Mission)

SMD Science Mission Directorate

SMEX Small Explorer Program

SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy

Spitzer Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly SIRTF, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility)

STIS Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph

SWAS Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite

Swift Multi-wavelength observatory dedicated to the study of gamma-ray burst science

TPF Terrestrial Planet Finder

WISE Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

WFC3 Wide Field Camera 3 (HST)

WMAP Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe

XTE X-ray Timing Explorer

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While a number of remarkable discoveries in astronomy and astrophysics have taken place over the past 20 years, many important questions remain. Continued progress in these fields will require NASA’s leadership. To help determine if NASA can meet this challenge, Congress, in the 2005 NASA Authorization Act, directed the agency to have "[t]he performance of each division in the Science directorate...reviewed and assessed by the National Academy of Sciences at 5-year intervals." In early 2006, NASA asked the NRC to conduct such an assessment for the agency’s Astrophysics Division. This report presents an assessment of how well NASA’s current program addresses the strategies, goals, and priorities outlined in previous Academy reports. The report provides an analysis of progress toward realizing these strategies, goals, and priorities; and a discussion of actions that could be taken to optimize the scientific value of the program in the context of current and forecasted resources.

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