Craig Fink wrote in message thlink.net...

NASA (or better yet Congress) should pull the plug on some NASA managers,
instead of the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope has
contributed so much to our the knowledge of the Universe it would be
criminal not to put it in a museum for display along with all it's
achievements.

Forget that. If you can afford a mission to retrieve Hubble, you can
afford a mission to service Hubble for several more years of service.
Much better to keep getting useful work out of Hubble than to pour all
those millions down the drain.

And if you're not going to pony up to service Hubble again because
it's too expensive, then it's too expensive to retrieve, and the money
can be better spent on other missions. One Hubble service/retrieval
mission is worth several of those better-faster-cheaper missions. It'd
be criminal to waste so money on a museum piece when it can find much
better uses.

Mike Miller, Materials Engineer