NASA Cancels Hubble Mission, and Other Space Bits

An anonymous reader writes "NASA Watch is reporting that NASA has cancelled Servicing Mission 4 for the Hubble Space Telescope. The reason given is not for budgets, but for safety." ender81b writes "With all the excitement generated by the Mars Exploration Rovers now is a good time to look at future space exploration missions. One of the most exciting is the Kepler spacecraft which will search for terrestrial planets around nearby stars. Other interesting upcoming missions include the New Horizons mission to explore Pluto and the Kuiper belt, Deep Impact which will fire a small impactor into a comet to study the insides, Messenger which will fully photograph Mercury for the first time, and the ESA's Herschel infrared space telescope and Rosetta spacecraft which will land on a comet for the first time. Whew, good time to be invovled in space exploration!" StarWreck writes "Cnet.com is reporting that the Mars Rover uses Java. The same piece of software that lets people around the world play video games on their cell phones is now letting scientists drive the ultimate remote-controlled car across the surface of Mars."

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Re:So, anyone want to be the first to assume?

[phr1]

It's not nitpicking to report that the plain facts don't resemble your ridiculous spin.

Re:So, anyone want to be the first to assume?

[Ralph Wiggam]

You're so wrong. Bush is evil for dozens of unrelated reasons. Being a hypocritical liar comes to mind.

Hubble fun fact: Musician/Actor Jack Black's mom was one of the main designers of the telescope.

-B

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[pyrrho]

the cancelling of SM4 is purely about saving money.

This is wrong as your own post argues, he's not saving money, he's stealing it, he's moving it around to things that don't get done in labs at Universities and Research Centers. He's moving it closer to people that can take the money to stockholders and then invest it in "democracy".