Hubble Space Telescope first casualty of Bush space initiative

In sci.space.policy Kaido Kert wrote:
"Sander Vesik" wrote in message
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In sci.space.policy Kaido Kert wrote:
"Tom Abbott" wrote in message
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I personally hope NASA can figure out a way to service the
Hubble telescope. It is more important than any one piece
of the International space station, so if one flight has to
be cancelled, let it be one to the International space
station rather than the one to Hubble, especially
considering that we already have $200 million worth of new
instruments to add to Hubble that have already been bought
and paid for.

How about saving the servicing money and the components and keep them
for a
lunar version of Hubble ? Is there something urgent to be discovered
that
absolutely needs to be done this decade ?

There is *NO* point in making a moon version of Hubble. No point at all.
There is *NO* point in making a movie version of LoTR. No point at all. (
read: i know everything with 100% certainty. I can tell every single radio
astronomer what they need, want or should want )

Well you are the one around who keeps claiming that lots of things can be
done on Moon and done better from Moon while consistently failing to bring
any examples as to why. So how about starting to list all those wonderful
things the moon based hubble replacement can do? Don't forget that you need
to compensate for the greately reduced pointing capability.


-kert



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Sander

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