A Short and Personal History of the Spitzer Space Telescope

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2005-03-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503624v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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

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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).

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