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Title: Hubble Space Telescope Post by: jpn of Seattle on December 04, 2007, 07:51:17 AM Here's an interesting article about the Hubble Space Telescope for us "materialists."
Quote One Last Ride to the Hubble http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/science/space/04hubb.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/science/space/04hubb.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin)Next August, after 20 years of hype, disappointment, blunders, triumphs and peerless glittering vistas of space and time, and four years after NASA decided to leave the Hubble Space Telescope to die in orbit, setting off public and Congressional outrage, a group of astronauts will ride to the telescope aboard the space shuttle Atlantis with wrenches in hand. That, at least, is the plan. “It’s been a roller coaster ride from hell,” Preston Burch, the space telescope’s project manager, said in his office here at the Goddard Space Flight Center of the controversy and uncertainty. Title: Re: Hubble Space Telescope Post by: Fredledingue on December 17, 2007, 01:54:38 PM We ought to have another space telescope after Hubble.
Title: Re: Hubble Space Telescope Post by: OswaldTheOsprey on December 17, 2007, 06:17:08 PM Here's an interesting article about the Hubble Space Telescope for us "materialists." Quote One Last Ride to the Hubble http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/science/space/04hubb.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/science/space/04hubb.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin)Next August, after 20 years of hype, disappointment, blunders, triumphs and peerless glittering vistas of space and time, and four years after NASA decided to leave the Hubble Space Telescope to die in orbit, setting off public and Congressional outrage, a group of astronauts will ride to the telescope aboard the space shuttle Atlantis with wrenches in hand. That, at least, is the plan. “It’s been a roller coaster ride from hell,” Preston Burch, the space telescope’s project manager, said in his office here at the Goddard Space Flight Center of the controversy and uncertainty. R.I.P. OswaldTheOsprey Title: Re: Hubble Space Telescope Post by: jpn of Seattle on December 17, 2007, 08:58:05 PM We ought to have another space telescope after Hubble. Agreed. And it's on its way! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6645179.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6645179.stm) Every once in a while, even in Geoge W Bush's America, I can still feel a tingle of pride in my country. This is one of them. With the Hubble repair mission now back on schedule, leading-edge astronomy should be in good shape for another generation or so.
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