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Hubble Upgraded; NASA's Future Not So Bright

Posted by michael on from the one-hundred-seventy-two-million-cheap dept.

jokrswild writes: "After 5 space walks and 172 million dollars, Hubble has been successfully redeployed. Hopefully it will be able to amaze us yet again in its abilities to capture the unimaginable." And Captn Pepe writes: "Space.com has a couple of articles regarding what the Congressional Research Service and what NASA's new chief administrator have to say about the space agency's future plans and prospects. The short version is, don't hold your breath for a Mars mission."

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  1. Re:Manned space travel is pointless. by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 2, Redundant
    Ok, so kids are staving to death as we speak on this planet, and some people want to spends billions of dollars to conduct a gigantic geology experiment on Mars.

    Kids are starving to death as we speak, and you're sitting on your ass reading slashdot.