Work to begin on NASA's final planned 'Great Observatory'

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been cleared to begin design and development work on the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), an orbiting instrument to probe the Universe in infrared wavelengths that will round out the U.S. space agency's series of four planned "Great Observatories."...

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