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NASA Engineers Dispute Hubble Safety Claim
Zeinfeld writes "According to the administration, the Hubble space telescope is going to be allowed to die in the next three years because the shuttle mission required to save it would be too risky. Meanwhile the public plans say shuttle missions to the space station will resume. Papers leaked to the New York Times say hogwash. The article (free subscription required) reports claims that money and politics, not safety are the reason. The public NASA story is clearly nonsense, and if the science from Hubble does not justify a shuttle mission, then it's time to pull the plug on the space station. I suspect that is exactly what will happen after the November election."
It is clear to me that after the election the bush admin will have to make 'hard choices' and nasa will be cut back from 15 billion to 5 billion, just enough to do a couple more mars probes for show and tell. Abandon the shuttle, abandon the space station and siphon the money off to black projects and more wars. More wars used to mean more business in the US and that helped the economy but these days even the means of war material production is being outsourced from the US.
That's why "public" anonymous accounts don't work. Some asshole always pees in the pool.
If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.