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United States: invest infrastructure stimulus in astronomy facilities

  1. Adam Cohen

    1. Associated Universities Incorporated, Washington DC, USA.

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  2. Matt Mountain

    1. Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Washington DC, USA.

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  3. David Reitze

    1. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.

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We argue that US President Joe Biden’s planned investment in national infrastructure (see Nature 593, 19–20; 2021) should include the next generation of astronomy facilities. Priorities for these will be identified by the Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, expected in July. They will be crucial to US research, development and diplomacy.

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Nature 594, 496 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01691-8

Competing Interests

A.C. is president and chief executive for Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI), which manages the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the Green Bank Observatory (GBO) for the US National Science Foundation (NSF).

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