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Hubble Future Is Cloudier After Katrina

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the up-in-the-air dept.

XorNand writes "The AP is reporting that Katrina has further jeopardized the already tenuous future of the Hubble space telescope. The hurricane damaged the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, where the shuttle's fuel tanks are built, and the Mississippi-based Stennis Space Center, where shuttle engines are tested, NASA officials said."

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  1. In other news.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "To be honest, we really don't know what the impact will be," said Preston M. Burch, Hubble program manager at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, which oversees Hubble's day-to-day operations.

    In other news:

    Effects of Katrina on children with learning disabilities in Australia still unknown!

    1. Re:In other news.. by MooseByte · · Score: 3, Funny

      "In other news: Effects of Katrina on children with learning disabilities in Australia still unknown!"

      Well put. Yeesh, from TFA it doesn't seem Hubble's future is really any cloudier than before. It doesn't say the two key facilities were wiped out, only damaged. Several months delay in the overall Shuttle schedule seems likely - people want to be back to work pursuing normal lives ASAP, and the gov't will be pushing hard to make it happen (14 days after finally waking the fsck up).

      Unless FEMA gets involved, in which case I predict our space program will be limited to airing repeats of the Thunderbirds for decades to come.

  2. What? by jafac · · Score: 3, Funny

    How could it's future be cloudy? I thought Hubble was a space telescope. You know? Above the clouds?

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  3. Re:Pigs In Space by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 2, Funny

    New Jersey.

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