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According to Harvey D. Tananbaum, director of the AXAF Science Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory, the advanced X-ray astrophysics facility (AXAF) allows physicists to produce images of objects which cannot be differentiated by other telescopes...
According to James Cornell, a center spokesperson, the Smithsonian Center will be the site of an AFAX Science Center, a $30 million NASA-funded station where images will be analyzed and archived...
NASA indirectly sponsors and funds a number of Harvard-affiliated scientists, from the Smithsonian Center and the Division of Applied Sciences, who create and design space experiments for the Shuttle. The Center for Astrophysics, boasting a professional staff of 200 researchers, is funded and supported by NASA to study seven categories of space science...
Direct contracts are issued to the Smithsonian, but many scientists and doctors who work at the center hold joint appointments with Harvard. Researchers prepare experiments and equipment for the spacecraft but do not participate in the launching preparation...
According to Giovanni G. Fazio, senior physicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, researchers are developing the space infrared telescope facility (SIRTF) in hopes of better understanding star formation by looking at the cores of dense stellar clouds...