Acknowledgments

The MAST staff would like to thank the following groups and individuals for help in making the BEFS data, documentation, and WEB site available to the public:

• BEFS Project members Mark Hurwitz, Stuart Bowyer, and Van Dixon (University of California, Berkeley) for advice, permissions to reprint some documentation and information in general on the BEFS project;

• Kluwer Academic Publishers, publishers of "Astrophysics in the Extreme Ultraviolet", for permission to reprint the article "The Berkeley Spectrometer for ORFEUS: Laboratory and In-Flight Performance" by Hurwitz and Bowyer (1996,601). Special thanks go to Berendina Schermers-van Straalen, Rights and Permissions Manager for Kluwer Academic Publishers.