MSNBC - How a 'safe haven' could help save Hubble

"There's nothing about HST that makes it the only choice for this."

Yes there is, there is a *budget* for development of robotic servicing
for HST. If this budget is compromised by diverting money towards
Shuttle servicing of HST with this Safe Haven, there won't be enough
money for the robotic technologies - $2.2 billion is what the Aerospace
Corp says is needed.

On 8 Dec 2004 08:56:44 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Explorer"
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such
a way as to indicate that:

"There's nothing about HST that makes it the only choice for this."

Yes there is, there is a *budget* for development of robotic servicing
for HST. If this budget is compromised by diverting money towards
Shuttle servicing of HST with this Safe Haven, there won't be enough
money for the robotic technologies - $2.2 billion is what the Aerospace
Corp says is needed.

And a Shuttle mission to accomplish the same thing would be less than
ten percent of that.