Re: Save the Hubble

From: Don Pearce (donald_at_pearce.uk.com)
Date: 02/12/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:47:08 GMT

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:44:02 +0000 (UTC), kensmith@green.rahul.net
(Ken Smith) wrote:

>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.
>
>--

Saw an interesting interview with an astronaut/cosmonaut recently. The
interviewer asked him how they spent their time while not actually
working. "Trying not to die" was the answer.

d

Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

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