On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 21:58:22 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
(Greg Kuperberg) made the phosphor on
my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

This is what it is really all about. The space station is NASA's
priority. Not a moonbase, not a manned mission to Mars, not the Mars
rovers, and certainly not Hubble. The space station is still eating
both NASA's budget and the shuttle's schedule. It isn't just because
the station has major foreign partnerships;

Yes, it is.

as if Hubble doesn't?

Hubble doesn't. Not any with whom we have treaty-level commitments.