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A Short and Personal History of the Spitzer Space Telescope

Name: A Short and Personal History of the Spitzer Space Telescope
Creator: Werner, Michael
Keywords: 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint , Part of book or chapter of book 01 Jan 2005Embargo end date: 01 Jan 2005 United States Publisher:arXiv

Authors: Werner, Michael;

doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0503624

arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503624

A Short and Personal History of the Spitzer Space Telescope

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The Spitzer Space Telescope, born as the Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) and later the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (still SIRTF), was under discussion and development within NASA and the scientific community for more than 30 years prior to its launch in 2003. This brief history chronicles a few of the highlights and the lowlights of those 30 years from the authors personal perspective. A much more comprehensive history of SIRTF/Spitzer has been written by George Rieke (2006).

12 pages, 3 figures; to appear in proceedings of "The Spitzer Space Telescope: New Views of the Cosmos"

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California Institute of Technology
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Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics

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