Chicken *** NASA (was Re: Hubble good as dead)

In article <Xns961746402A21Djkporterhawaiicom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John
Porter <jkporter2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
>

So what's happened to NASA to turn them so chicken *** about sending
astronauts to service Hubble? We went to the moon and back several
times, sent men who had never walked in space before to walk in space,
and even recovered from the near-disaster of Apollo 13.

But now they're all knock-kneed about sending up an earth-orbit mission?

I'd be interested to hear what the Apollo veterans think of NASA
turning into a bunch of cowards all of a sudden.
.