Re: How do we keep Hubble up there?
From: Eric Chomko (echomko_at__at_polaris.umuc.edu)
Date: 01/31/05
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:16:14 +0000 (UTC)
Charles Buckley (rijrunner@friiSTOPSPAM.com) wrote:
: Eric Chomko wrote:
: > Fred J. McCall (fmccall@earthlink.net) wrote:
: > : "Jeff Findley" <jeff.findley@ugs.nojunk.com> wrote:
: >
: snip
: >
: > But Hubble isn't broken. It needs PM and we are opting not to do that, as
: > if the cost were too high or the risk too great. That is coming from a
: > position of meekness and if THAT is where the new space initiative is
: > headed, then it is doomed.
: >
: > True leadership would dicate doing the Hubble maintenance and finishing
: > ISS. Give the people that work for you some credit!
: >
: I am not a fan of the current administration, by any stretch of the
: imagination, but will have to come down on their side on this issue.
: The new space initiative is not about pushing the boundries to be
: pushing the boundries. It is about applying a strategy and applying
: resources to meet the strategic goals outlined. It is about applying
: rationality to procurement, assigning missions, and supporting said
: missions.
I think you confuse sound fiscal policy, in general, with going back to
the moon and onto Mars.
: I am coming from the other perspective that Shuttle would have been
: grounded permamently had ISS been completed, or had the international
: implications not been so great. If you apply the numbers, Shuttle is
: neither economical, nor is it safe. There is already a 40% chance of
: losing another Shuttle in it's remaining flights and there is no
: compelling reason to keep pushing that boundry for something that is
: beyond the end of it's life.
Be that as it may, where is the shuttle's replacement? I would suspect by
now that we would have at least an idea and a prototype to fly as a
replacement.
I just think that the focus is all wrong and we seem to be moving too slow
or even backward, when we should be moving forward.
Eric
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