Re: Save the Hubble

From: Ken Smith (kensmith_at_green.rahul.net)
Date: 02/12/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:44:02 +0000 (UTC)

In article <Xns95FAD70382B3Cjyanikkuanet@129.250.170.84>,
Jim Yanik <jyanik@abuse.gov.> wrote:
[...]
>Two Shuttles fail,and instead of making a better spacecraft,they decide
>they don't need to fix Hubble.(and some want to abandon the ISS)

The Russians have already proven that you can put a tin-can in space and
have people live in it for a while. ISS hasn't advanced from that point.
It is a waste of money on a non-science project.

If a space station was spun up to give a gravity effect and was a place to
assemble large missions to the outer planets it may have a purpose. Today
it just exists as a place for the shuttles to go and the shuttles just
exist to go there. Both have become near useless. 

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