Nooooo! re: Hubble news

[Comet Hunter]

http://www.space.com/news/hubble_budget_050121.html

Not looking good for Hubble :sad:

She deserves more then just to be dumped into the ocean like a bit of space junk.

[iceman]

*sniff* :(

Not good news at all.. especially since it's 5+ years away before it's replacement is launched. The James Webb or something isn't it?

[Striker]

Thats ok....buy a wet suit and we will retrieve it once dumped....

Any takers......set out in our 7ft tinie....and 6hp Johnson.

[Starkler]

The replacement I think does imaging in wavelengths other than visible light, so no more eye candy for us.

:( :( :( :(

[janoskiss]

Sad but expected from the US govt. Hubble would not be a priority for them right now. Maybe a multi-billionaire business man will step in and put up the funds. Then again that could be even more disastrous. Imagine Bill Gates installing Windows on it!

[Vermin]

This is what happens when funds are diverted from legitimate science to political band standing like putting a man on Mars.

[ving]

if they are putting it out of commission they should at least retrieve it and put it in a museum.

[Vermin]

For the cost of doing that they could probably service it.

[ballaratdragons]

I BAGS THE PRIMARY MIRROR!

:jump: :party: :jump2: :cool: :party: :thumbsup:

[Comet Hunter]

If they're goin up to fit a propulsion module or two for controlled re-entry surely they'd bring her into the cargo bay of a shuttle for fitment, if so, why cant they just bring her home instead of re-releasing from the shuttle and blunging into the ocean like a spent fuel booster? They've got to come back anyway, might as well be with a full cargo bay.

[ballaratdragons]

Has the shuttle ever landed with such a heavy load on board. Might not be able to, OR, the twits at NASA didn't think of it!

[gaa_ian]

Hmmm ..... I read the article, I wouldn't sink hubble yet :astron:
Politicians have a way of doing things that will make themselves popular.
Keeping the hubble in orbit probably equals the bill for every day spent in Iraq :P
Just bring Em back a few days sooner ... problem solved :D

[rumples riot]

Have to agree, this will become a political football at some point, and some baby kissing polly will get the credit for it. Sucks how the media and the average Joe are gullible enough to wear it. The media especially, need to get back to Journalism and not agenda setting. Hubble will be like the pheonix and rise from the ashes.

[Orion]

The primary mirror is not as good as you think it is. It was not figured properly from the start. ( It's a shame to lose Hubble):prey:

[iceman]

Not all is lost yet, it seems..

http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1448_1.asp

[Comet Hunter]

Lets hope so!

:prey: