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NASA Announces De-Orbit Mission For Hubble

Posted by timothy on from the we-have-always-been-at-war-with-luna dept.

maglor_83 writes "NASA has announced the end for Hubble. It plans on performing a "robotic de-orbit mission", and apparently its not due to the monetary costs associated with fixing it, but rather the risks involved. NASA's new goals are now manned missions to the moon, as a platform for Mars."

6 of 488 comments (clear)

  1. Gee, I hope ... by ari_j · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope part of it lands on my field. I just haven't had anything to sell on eBay for a couple years. (I am not referring to Columbia. That's just wrong.)

  2. Re:Scientific payoff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Given current technology, I see a manned mission to mars as a financial boondogle.

    Not that financial boondogles have stopped this administration from doing anything. :-P

  3. I know I'm showing my age by mentioning this... by cutecub · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...but I think I'll have to dust off my old "Official SkyLab Target" T-Shirt.

    Seeing as the Government usually can't hit the broad side of a planet, its a pretty fair bet that making myself a target ( again ) will prevent any possibility of me getting hit by Hubble when it crashes.

    Cue SNL video of John Belushi smashing his SkyLab model into a Globe of the Earth

  4. M.A.R.S. Mars, bitches! by mcguyver · · Score: 3, Funny

    - Dave Chappelle in 'The Black President'
    Googled Videos

  5. Re:Scientific payoff by AndyL · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why make a new Hubble? They could just buy back the one in the Smithsonian.

  6. we know the real reason by flacco · · Score: 3, Funny
    people are starting to talk about pointing the hubble at the lunar landing sites to see the landing craft and other remaining artifacts, only to find that they're not there.

    if the truth were to get out that it was all a cold-war hoax, it would send american self-esteem into a crisis.

    --
    pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.