A Blow to NASA's Hubble Rescue

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Lead editorial in my hometown paper, the Sunday NYT.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/op...tml?oref=login

A Blow to NASA's Hubble Rescue, Published: December 12, 2004

The space agency's plan to rescue its most important scientific
instrument,
the Hubble Space Telescope, with a robotic servicing mission looks
increasingly like a bad bet. A panel of experts assembled by the National
Academy of Sciences concluded last week that there was only a remote
chance a
robotic mission could be mounted quickly enough to succeed and some danger
that it might damage the instrument. Instead, the panel said that NASA
should
send astronauts up on a shuttle flight to service and rescue this
incredibly
valuable telescope before its gyroscopes and batteries begin to fail a few
years from now.


so the kind folks who are so adamantly against manned spaceflight as a
breathtaking waste of time and effort...are now demanding a manned
expedition to one of their unmanned experiments because an unmanned repair
mission won't work.

Sweet g

--
Terrell Miller

"The military can't respond quickly to emergencies"

- Loren Thompson, a military analyst at the Lexington Institute in
Arlington, Va.