Hubble hearings on C-SPAN

As you may know, the National Academy of Sciences has organized a committee
to evaluate options for extending the life of the Hubble Space Telescope
(see
http://www4.nas.edu/cp.nsf/852563d50053f0c285255d8b004e349a/4fe00675d8ef5a3585256e78005823e2?OpenDocument).

Last night in the wee hours the C-SPAN public-affairs cable-TV channel in
the U.S. aired one of their meetings.

C-SPAN http://www.c-span.org has a habit of repeating these things,
usually within one week of the event. So if you would like to watch a bunch
of scientists and engineers grill NASA officials for three and a half hours,
you may have another chance.

Unfortunately, C-SPAN doesn't give much warning of upcoming shows-- they
seem to assemble their schedule on the fly. So one needs to monitor the
C-SPAN TV schedule link at
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/schedule.csp a few times a
day.

I've skimmed and fast-forwarded through the tape at breakfast time, but
haven't watched it extensively. I noted Ed Weiler, NASA Associate
Administrator for Space Science, as one of the speakers, and Admiral Harold
Gahman Jr., chairman of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, as
another. I will be interested to eavesdrop on the conversation when I get a
chance to play the whole tape.

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