Hubble Verdict: De-Orbit

theonetruekeebler writes "CNN reports that NASA has reached a final decision for the Hubble space telescope: De-orbit. At some future date a liquid-fueled rocket will dock with the telescope and fire, hurling Hubble into the ocean. However, "Our best estimate is we probably will be able to continue to do science as we're doing it ... somewhere into 2008," according to program executive Mark Borkowski."

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Re:Like they had a choice

[farbles]

It's all a matter of priorities. The U.S. needs to be able to kill people in large numbers, not look out into the universe to learn Man's true place in it. There's the Bible for that, don't you know.

I just finished reading how one (1) of the many factories in the U.S. that produce bullets now makes 1.2 billion rounds a year and proudly boasts that 75% of them are used.

It's not fear for astronaut safety stopping the funds for a fix-it mission to Hubble, it's the mind-boggling short-sightedness, stupidity and profound greed of the current U.S. administration.

Now if Hubble could kill people, a fix-it flight would have been launched in Bush's first term.

"O brave new world, That has such people in't!"

fine with me.

[ocularDeathRay]

I am not gonna feel too bad...the hubble was all a hoax anyway. just some scientists in a warehouse in the desert with crayons and black construction paper.