NASA announces Hubble repair mission

[Freewolf]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/10/31/hubble.ap/index.html

 

[Assimilator1]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- NASA Administrator Michael Griffin on Tuesday approved sending a space shuttle to repair the 16-year-old Hubble Space Telescope, reversing his predecessor's contentious decision to nix the mission.

"We are going to add a shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope to the shuttle's manifest to be flown before it retires," Griffin told workers at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland on Tuesday.

Griffin's announcement was greeted eagerly by astronomers who feared Hubble would deteriorate before the end of the decade without a mission to add new camera instruments, sensors and replace aging batteries


Yea excellent! ,good man ,glad to see NASA saw sense in the end

Thanks for the heads up FW

 

[zaph]

:beer:

 

[theMan]

YEAH!!! This is great. Finally some sense other than: "oh, lets go to the moon because my approval ratings terrible!"

:beer:

 

[GLeeM]

I always have touble throwing things away

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: theman
YEAH!!! This is great. Finally some sense other than: "oh, lets go to the moon because my approval ratings terrible!"

:beer:

lol

Gleem
I know what you mean (he says looking at the working Pentium 90 in the draw!)