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NASA Seeks Proposals For Hubble Robotic Servicing

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: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, the big problem with drug testing is that it's left too much to the corporations with an interest in having the drug pass the tests, so ineffective or dangerous treatments are being passed. This

    a) hurts the patients who get the bad treatments
    b) holds back progress towards treatments that really work

    So what's urgently needed is more, and more rigorous, drug testing.

  2. Re:Nuts by Patrik_AKA_RedX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I doubt the president knows how to spell "vision".
    But I think that sentence mend they need/want more funding.

  3. Re:Nuts by richie2000 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I find it funny that people whine about Bush's service, but defend Clinton, the draft-dodger who never served in anything.

    In the autumn of 1969, Clinton entered the draft but received a high number in the lottery (311) and was never called to serve. Geroge W. Bush got a cushy assignment flying National Guard jets in Texas. Or was it Alabama? Whatever, it seems he wasn't sure either. For fun and extra credit, compare Bush and Kerry.

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  4. Re:Bush and Lincoln by pubjames · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    President Bush's war on terror has been nothing short of heroic.

    What a low bar you have to jump these days to become a hero. Sad.

    There were some youths in my street last week writing obscenities on a wall. I phoned the police. According to your criteria for a hero, that makes me one.