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""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction ""; ""2 Back to the Past: An Update on the 1991 Decadal Report ""; ""2.1 THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF ASTRONOMY""; ""2.2 THE FUNDING OF ASTRONOMY""; ""2.2.1 Support from NSF""; ""2.2.2 Support from NASA""; ""2.2.3 Trends in Astronomical Research""; ""3 Process and Methodology of This Study ""; ""3.1 KEY QUESTIONS""; ""3.2 TYPES OF DATA GATHERED""; ""3.3 LIMITATIONS OF DATA RESOURCES""; ""4 Demographics ""; ""4.1 NUMBER OF ASTRONOMERS"" 505 8 ""4.2 PUBLICATIONS AND DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDING SOURCES""""4.3 DATA AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""5 Funding ""; ""5.1 THE NSF BUDGET""; ""5.1.1 Total NSF R & RA Budget and AST and MPS Fractions""; ""5.1.2 NSF AST Overview""; ""5.1.3 Major Research Equipment""; ""5.1.4 Grants Program""; ""5.1.5 Oversubscription in the NSF Grants Program""; ""5.2 THE NASA R & A BUDGET""; ""5.2.1 NASA Theory Program""; ""5.3 FACILITIES OVERSUBSCRIPTION""; ""5.3.1 NSF Facilities""; ""National Optical Astronomy Observatories""; ""National Radio Astronomy Observatory""; ""National Astronomy and Ionospheric Center"" 505 8 ""University-owned Radio Observatories""""5.3.2 NASA Ground-based Facilities""; ""5.3.3 NASA Missions with Guest Observer Programs""; ""Hubble Space Telescope""; ""Chandra""; ""Compton Gamma Ray Observatory""; ""Far Ultraviolet Spectrographic Explorer""; ""Kuiper Airborne Observatory and Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy""; ""5.3.4 Instrumentation for Ground-based Telescopes""; ""6 Discussion ""; ""6.1 BALANCE AMONG AGENCIES""; ""6.2 GROUND-BASED OPTICAL FACILITIES""; ""6.3 VULNERABILITIES""; ""6.4 THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION""; ""6.5 RECORD KEEPING""; ""7 Findings "" 505 8 ""APPENDIXES""""A Discipline and Field Categories ""; ""B American Astronomical Society Membership ""; ""C Deflators ""; ""D National Science Foundation Budget Numbers ""; ""E Additional Sources of Funding for Astronomy ""; ""E.1""; ""E.1.1 Ames Research Center""; ""E.1.2 Goddard Institute for Space Studies""; ""E.1.3 Goddard Space Flight Center""; ""E.1.4 NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory""; ""E.1.5 Marshall Space Flight Center""; ""E.1.6 Space Telescope Science Institute""; ""E.2 NASA TECHNOLOGY FUNDING""; ""E.3 RESEARCH FUNDING AT NSF FACILITIES"" 505 8 ""E.3.1 National Radio Astronomy Observatory""""E.3.2 National Optical Astronomy Observatories""; ""E.3.3 International Gemini Project""; ""E.3.4 National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center""; ""E.4 DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY""; ""E.5 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE""; ""E.6 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION""; ""E.7 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY""; ""F National Science Foundation Proposal Success Rates ""; ""G Notes on Figures, Tables, and Other References ""; ""OVERALL FUNDING""; ""STUDENTS AND DEGREES""; ""Acronyms Acronyms "" 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 610 10 United States.|bNational Aeronautics and Space Administration|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n78087581|xAppropriations and expenditures.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002007884 610 14 United States.|bNational Aeronautics and Space Administration. 610 17 United States.|bNational Aeronautics and Space Administration.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/528469 610 20 National Science Foundation (U.S.)|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/n79005681|xResearch grants.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006577 610 24 National Science Foundation (U.S.) 610 27 National Science Foundation (U.S.)|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/529404 650 0 Astronomy|xResearch|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh85009011|zUnited States|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/n78095330-781|xFinance.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002007885 650 7 Research grants.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1095281 650 7 Expenditures, Public.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 918345 650 7 Astronomy|xResearch.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 819727 650 7 Finance.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/924349 651 7 United States.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204155 655 4 Electronic books. 710 2 National Research Council (U.S.).|bCommittee on Astronomy and Astrophysics.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ nr96031538 710 2 National Research Council (U.S.).|bBoard on Physics and Astronomy.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85092935 710 2 National Research Council (U.S.).|bCommission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90636483 776 08 |iPrint version:|tFederal funding of astronomical research.|dWashington, D.C. : National Academy Press, ©2000|w(DLC) 2001274254 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=121347|zOnline eBook. 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