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NASA Seeks Proposals For Hubble Robotic Servicing

Posted by simoniker on from the beavis-and-butthead-delighted dept.

hcg50a writes "SpaceFlight Now has an article about NASA asking for proposals to mount a robotic mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Such a Hubble-servicing mission would occur toward the end of calendar year 2007. If you like politics mixed with your spaceflight, you can read NASA Administrator O'Keefe's speech in which the announcement was made."

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  1. Re:JUST SEND A FUCKING HUMAN. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've got news for you. The most exciting thing humans have ever done in space - the moon missions - was exciting exactly once. By the Apollo 12 mission, lots of people were complaining to the TV networks that their programmes weren't on because of all the boring moon stuff. Apollo 13 raised the figures again, but I don't think you're really calling for an "all disaster, all the time" approach to manned spaceflight, are you?

    Modern day manned spaceflight is as boring as you like. "The crew are a mathematician, a different kind of mathematician, and a statistician" pretty much sums it up. Who cares?

    So manned spaceflight is

    a) a regular PR disaster
    b) boring when it isn't being disastrous
    c) scientifically pointless

    whereas robotic spaceflight is

    a) not a disaster
    b) no more boring than manned spaceflight
    c) scientifically useful

    Robots win!