White House cuts Hubble fix-up funds (6)

1 Name: Sling!myL1/SLing 05/01/22(Sat)22:33 ID:jHxg6wAW

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6853009/
"NASA told to focus on destroying telescope safely"
"The White House has eliminated funding for a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope from its 2006 budget request and directed NASA to focus solely on deorbiting the popular spacecraft at the end of its life, according to government and industry sources."

2 Name: Unverified Source 05/01/23(Sun)10:12 ID:Heaven

So not only does Seti get killed, and the ISS isn't doing anything exciting, the only telescope that can get see the good stuff gets its funding shot down? What, is the war on iraq really more important?

3 Name: dmpk2k!hinhT6kz2E 05/01/23(Sun)12:57 ID:JsvM5Eq1

Priorities people. If everyone's dead there won't be a need for the Hubble, ISS or them fangled alien things.

4 Name: Sling!myL1/SLing 05/01/23(Sun)14:42 ID:GLoFT6Va

I never undertsood what was the ISS useful for.

5 Name: dmpk2k!hinhT6kz2E 05/01/25(Tue)02:14 ID:CJQh765D

Keeping Russian scientists employed?

Not really, but I'm sure that's a small part of it.

6 Name: Sling!myL1/SLing 05/01/25(Tue)03:36 ID:8Zz5FDEB

OK, maybe I can see something useful: preparing for long interplanetary flights.
Last I heard, they were having repeated problems with the oxygen generator machines, with one of them broken and the other one breaking now and then. A better designed machine would be needed.
Before that, there was the problem that one team ate too much of the good food and left little but junk food for the next team, who had to be resupplied in the nick of time. A food control system would need to be implemented and/or adhered to more strictly.

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