Houck participated in a press conference at NASA headquarters in
| Washington, D.C., today (Dec. 18) at which the first observations and
| data from the half-billion-dollar observatory, launched Aug. 25, were
| released. Among the most spectacular details released were
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infrared spectrograph, or IRS. James Houck, professor of astronomy at
| Cornell University, heads the scientific team on the $39 million IRS
| contract with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., a
| division of the California Institute of Technology, manager of the