Re: Bush cancels Hubble telescope rescue mission

From: gregg (saville_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 04:54:51 -0500

Eric Chomko wrote:

> I think Mark Whittington in his article on the HST repair:
> http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_10682.shtml
>
> ...makes a very good point. If we plan to go on to the moon and Mars with
> manned missions then we shouldn't flinch at not ding the HST repair due to
> a risk factor. There will ALWAYS be risk.

  I don't see anyone disputing that there's risk in this mission or in Space
travel in general.

 But some of the questions are:

Is the risk limited to the Shuttle and it's crew, and the HST?

Is the risk worth the gain? the possible losses?

> Ah, so it CAN be done, but not with the shuttle. And, with a vehicle that
> we don't have and is simply too expensive. Geez, why do I get the feeling
> we are going backwards instead of forward with all this?

 Does it seem impossible to you that the time it would take NASA to design
and build a vehicle, that can go from HST orbit to ISS orbit, would be so
long that the question of saving HST is moot?

 Question:

What is the status of the NExt Generation Space Telescope? 

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