Responses to a 1980 survey of eminent astronomers and astrophysicists selected by project advisors to the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Center for History of Physics. Recipients were asked to discuss their decision to enter astronomy; their work during the Second World War; their professional work outside astronomy; the fields in which they have been most active, the advances in both those fields and others, and their own accomplishments and satisfactions; sources of funding; their perceptions of public attitudes; the influence of religion or philosophy on their work as astronomers; and their opinions on questions relating to the Big Bang Theory, cosmology, up-coming important developments, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. File includes responses from: Arthur Adel, Howard Lucius Andrews, Ralph Belknap Baldwin, Emily Hughes Boyce, Clarence Higbee Cleminshaw, Gilbert Douglas, Edwin G. Ebbighausen, Richard Maury Emberson, Clinton Banker Ford, Louis Craig Green, Francis Joseph Heyden, Theodor Siegumfeldt Jacobsen, Herbert Jehle, Philip Childs Keenan, Zdenk̊ Kopal, Israel Monroe Levitt, Sarah Lee Lippincott, Willem Jacob Luyten, Freeman Devold Miller, Gerard Francis William Mulders, John Aloysius O'Keefe, Thornton Leigh Page, Daniel Magnes Popper, William A. Rense, Carol Anger Rieke, Philip Shaefer Riggs, Alice Marguerite Risley, Walter Orr Roberts, George Shortley, Albert Melvin Skellett, Thomas Richard Nelson, Lois Keener Thome, Clyde William Tombaugh, Nicholas Emory Wagman, Balfour Stanley Whitney, Raymond Hiram Wilson Jr., Edith J. Woodward, and Frances Woodworth Wright.