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ABSTRACT. We have a well-established standard model for cosmology and prospects for considerable additions from work in progress. I offer a list of elements of the standard model, comments on controversies in the interpretation of the evidence in support of this model, and assessments of the directions extensions of the standard model seem to be taking.

Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• THE COSMOLOGICAL MODEL
• The Cosmological Principle
• The Hubble Redshift-Distance Relation
• The Expansion of the Universe
• THE COSMOLOGICAL TESTS
• Spacetime Geometry
• Biasing and Large-Scale Velocities
• Structure Formation
• Constraints From Fundamental Physics
• CONCLUDING REMARKS
• REFERENCES