Along with his Princeton colleague Lyman Spitzer, who first proposed a space-based observatory in 1946, Bahcall visited Washington to meet with congressmen and staffers, wrote letters to Capitol Hill, and contacted decision makers and astronomers alike to encourage support for the observatory. Starting in 1974, the pair were the principal astronomer lobbyists for the project.
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