Canadian Robot Could Rescue Hubble

NETHED writes "We have all seen Stories about The Hubble Space Telescope and its current problems. Since then, NASA has okayed the fix of the HST. It seems that America's neighbor to the North has some answers. Dextre to the rescue. The mission would not be decided upon until next summer says Sean O'Keefe. It seems that NASA saw this as a good way to listen to the public for about 1.6 billion dollars." Update: 08/11 15:45 GMT by T : Reader Michael Mol dug up a link with a more technical explanation of Dextre, noting "It looks like Dextre's normally supposed to be attached to something before it performs work."

Comments

SCTV?

[ackthpt]

For some reason this reminds me of an episode of SCTV where 3CP-TV blocks the canadian satellite and some Red Adair-type goes up to fix the canadian satellite and suddenly finds himself screwed out of his return trip on the candian rocket, so he jumps on one of the satellites and rides it back to earth as CCCP starts WW III, launching missiles at Canada.

I just hope they don't follow this script with Hubble.

Re:Cool

[justkarl]

I'm not going to make any jokes about left handed people being sinister in case they ended up with all the mod points today.

I'm not making a joke or anything, actually this is pure speculation on the very informative post of parent, but is that where right/left in reference to conservative/liberal categorization comes from? Most conservatives would probably say that liberals are "evil" and "sinister"(I guess I wouldn't know, being a liberal). Anybody have an idea?

Re:Didn't realise Canada did that much in Space

[shufler]

That must explain why my Bell Mobility signals are shit.

I guess this thing is a male

[jrf83317]

Does anyone else think this thing looks like it has a penis

http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/app/gallery/results2.as p?image_id=spdm