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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. Re:Just as well by Koiu+Lpoi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I agree completly. Our nation has a problem when half of all discretionary spending is spent on the Military. As opposed to things like education, or scientific research, or disease prevention, or relief efforts (remember the embarrassingly little we gave to the tsunami victims?), or a thousand little other things.

    And don't get me wrong, this isn't just liberalspeak. Our lovely 'liberals' in congress want to continue the war too.

    On a lighter note, IIRC the James Webb Space Telescope was going to replace Hubble anyways.