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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?"

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  1. Cheaper? by ericdano · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Would it be cheaper to just build something newer and better than to try to keep the Hubble up there?

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  2. Priorities by Jeffrey+Baker · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The savings will cover the cost of about 5 days of war in Iraq.

  3. Fucking Sad! by cOdEgUru · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It is a sad sad day when we make the choice to let slip an opportunity to keep this magnificient instrument of exploration and its everwatching eye in the sky, and fund fanciful grandstanding GOP ideas such as Missile shields which are made irrelevant and useless in a heartbeat by cleverer enemies and rapidly evolving technology.

    We let a President who look upon Mars as the next frontier just because it resonates well with a majority who look upon exploration as landing physically on a distant planet.

    I say we let private ownership reign in the field of space exploration.

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