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NASA Preparing Manned Hubble Service Mission

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the second-chances dept.

danimrich writes "According to an article at Space.com, 'NASA's new Administrator Mike Griffin told reporters today [April 29] that he informed key members of Congress Thursday evening that he would direct engineers at Goddard Spaceflight center to start preparing for a space shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope on the assumption that one ultimately will go forward.'"

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  1. Re:Handling too much? by m4dd00d · · Score: 1, Funny

    That wouldn't work. Russia is a communist country and the capitalist and communist economies are incompatible.

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  2. Shuttle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    That piece of garbage.

    I wish we had a stargate, instead. A stargate with which we'd find some Ancient technology and fly around in these cool spaceships. And then I would get to meet this hot chick in uniform, Samantha Carter, and she'd dig me. And we'd have hot sex for hours and hours. She would also make me wear a leash.

    Oh well, man can dream... man can dream.

  3. Re:Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    losing is what Americans do best

    Except when it comes to losing weight.

  4. The way to fix it by lheal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why don't they get a more powerful telescope on the ground and point it at the Hubble?

    They could fix it from here!

    I'm surprised nobody's thought of this. Maybe those "rocket scientists" aren't so smart after all.

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  5. Misread Title by quantaman · · Score: 2, Funny

    I glanced at the title and read

    NASA Preparing Manned Hubble Service Mission
    as
    NASA Preparing Manned Hubble Secret Mission

    and thought, "gee if they're trying to keep it secret then why are they announcing it on /.?!"

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  6. Re:Safety Concerns by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Dancing is not allowed in space.

  7. Re:Safety Concerns by vsprintf · · Score: 2, Funny

    To go one further, I think it's about time this nation drops all the "Wars" on drugs, terrorism, etc., and start a new, single, all encompassing "War on Ignorance".

    That would require the detainment of all members of Congress who don't read proposed legislation (all of them) in some detention camp and effectively deprive the country of "leadership". . . Okay, let's do it.

  8. NASA's gyros must be broken by noidentity · · Score: 2, Funny

    They keep changing their attitude towards Hubble's fate.