Re: Hubble good as dead

From: Blurrt (nathansr_at_bigpond.com)
Date: 03/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:55:55 GMT

"John Porter" <jkporter2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns961746402A21Djkporterhawaiicom@66.75.162.198...
> You would think that NASA / USA gov would let the suttle make at least one
> extra trip into space to repair it or come up with some smaller craft that
> could be used from ISS to go to the Hubble to do the repairs. Maybe they
> could do what they did to get other people - other than NASA to put
> together a ship for the next generation of shuttles. We will still have to
> get stuff up to the ISS once the suttles are done.
>

They should do one last servicing mission - to prove they have the right
stuff (if can't go to Hubble then how can we go to the moon?), then we
should use an uncrewed spiral 1 CEV to deorbit the telescope on a test
flight.

Nathan

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