Space-Based Astronomy
	• NASA’s suite of “Great Observatories” – The Hubble Space Telescope – The Spitzer Space Telescope – The Chandra X-ray Observatory – (“Deceased”: The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory) • Other missions: XMM-Newton (w/ESA), FUSE, Galex, WMAP, many others • Future: James Webb Space Telescope, Astro-E2, SNAP, TPF, GLAST, Swift, LISA, Constellation-X • Technical phrase is “Lots and lots and lots.”