This joint interview with Steve Murray and Gerry Austin begins with a discussion of several government astronomy projects: the Uhuru Satellite Project; NASA's second High Enery Astronomy Observatory (HEAO-2/Einstein Observatory); the Rn̲tgen Satellite (ROSAT); and the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), later renamed the Chandra X-Ray Center. Other topics and affiliations discussed include: spectrum analysis, galaxy clusters, and research developments in x-ray astronomy. This interview also contains several very descriptive sections in which Murray and Austin go into great detail to describe the design and assembly of x-ray detectors, and other x-ray equipment specifications.