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No Money For Hubble Service Mission

Posted by michael on from the sacrifices-have-to-be-made dept.

starexplorer writes "SPACE.com is reporting that the White House has eliminated funding for servicing the Hubble Space Telescope from its 2006 budget request. After many options 1, 2 were explored, is this the death knell for Hubble?"

8 of 401 comments (clear)

  1. Wha? by metalhed77 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can't they just stop off on the way to mars?

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  2. Crash it... by connah0047 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Crash it like they did the Mir...then I can put my blender up on EBay as set it for hundreds as "Hubble Debris".

  3. When will it end. by St.Anne · · Score: 3, Funny

    *ring* *ring* "Hello, Energiya?" "It's the wealthy ingrates." "Huh? No, America not France." "We've got the 100 million, you want it in dollars or *heheh* euros?" "What!?! France bought all Soyuz missions for the next ten years?" "Go ask Chirac? Yeah, very funny."

  4. Re:Hubble on eBay by connah0047 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, put it on EBay for an auction. Mark it as "Will not ship, must pick up."

  5. Taco Bell's second chance! by af_robot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Last time Taco Bell promised a free vouchers for everyone if MIR hits a floating target.
    NASA, PLEASE, don't miss the bulls eye now! I want my free burrito!

  6. Re:Hubble on eBay by CreatureComfort · · Score: 4, Funny


    Yeah, and as long as we can end the auction before the next gyro goes out, we can even provide free delivery with a controlled de-orbit...

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  7. Paypal button on homepage? by David+Ishee · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about putting a PayPal donation button on their homepage?

    (just kidding)

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  8. Re:Priorities by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 4, Funny

    In case you hadn't hear, we already won that war, and currently we're having a great deal of success with our peacekeeping efforts. In fact, there's going to be free elections in Iraq in less than two weeks.

    Maybe you were thinking of the cost of the upcoming war with Iran, but I have it on good authority that it's going to be a cake walk, and our soldiers will be greeted as liberators.

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