[netwolf]

Isn’t the timing just sweet, the repair team of the HST must be well pleased with these results, job well done to them. And in a way they have bird to thank for providing the event to help validate the ongoing need for Hubble and its maintaince as well as the space program in general. This renewed interest in space exploration could not come at a better time and a week filled with other aniversaries for the space program. 40 yearas ago man walks on the moon, 40 years later we get the first pictures of the traks they left behind, 15 years ago a comet strikes Jupiter, 15 years later another body strikes Jupiter, a Historic week. HST repaired just in time to take its first image, that is acknowledged by the polticians of the nation. All eyes turn to space again, we look again we are inspired again.

One small step for a man from Murrumbateman, one vast leap for the space program. And lets not forgot that in the recent past we have had several Amateur Astronomers from Australia take that one small step. From Terry's Comets using DSLR cameras, to storms on Saturn by Trevor. Hats of to you guys that take these small steps that inspires the rest of us to make vast leaps.