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Hubble is starting to fail.
Posted by Rand Simberg at August 08, 2004 11:05 PM
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I don't guess Burt Rutan can retrieve it.
Posted by Alan K. Henderson at August 9, 2004 02:41 AM
Talk about fiddling while Rome burns. NASA should make a final decision about Hubble and stick to it. If they're going to deorbit, fine, deorbit. If they're going to send a shuttle, then send one already. If they are going to send a robot, then get on with it and send a robot.
Instead it looks like they are going to dither until Hubble becomes completely uncontrollable. If they think they were in trouble with Columbia, just wait until Hubble crashes - hopefully not into a heavily-populated area.
Posted by Ed Minchau at August 9, 2004 04:04 AM
I'm sure the 40-odd unflown Group 18 and Group 19 astronauts are sure happy Uncle NASA is watching out for their safety and well-being by not letting them go get hurt trying to fix Hubble.
Posted by Andrew at August 9, 2004 06:04 AM
The thing that really pees me off about this is, just like last time, after all the waiting and tinkering and so forth the shuttle isn't really going to be all that much safer.
Fix Hubble - get what you can out of the remaining life times of the ones we have left. We're going to lose them eventually whatever happens.
Posted by Dave at August 9, 2004 06:20 AM
Why do I keep thinking of Skylab when I see things like this? We had a space station in the '70s, and there was talk about saving it, but the Shuttle came to late, and we didn't have anything else. *sigh*
Posted by VR at August 11, 2004 05:40 PM
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