My understanding is that one of the major reasons is that the Columbia Accident Review Board added a requirement that any mission other than to ISS - required that a backup shuttle be ready for launch. Still, this is a major letdown. -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Wiggins [mailto:paw@trilobyte.net] Sent: Fri 1/16/2004 10:28 PM To: Utah Astronomy Cc: Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Re: Hubble repair mission cancelled? Deorbit a functioning telescope at least 4 years before its replacement is launched. I guess I don't understand the reasoning. But then they do have to come up with 11 billion dollars somewhere to pay for the return to the Moon and on to Mars. Patrick William Biesele wrote: > > http://www.nasawatch.com/misc/01.16.04.hst.html > http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/16/hubble.telescope.ap/index.html > > > WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Hubble Space Telescope will be allowed to > > degrade and eventually become useless, as NASA changes focus to > > President Bush's plans to send humans to the moon, Mars and beyond, > > officials said Friday. > > Above says it all. No mission to Hubble before the space shuttle is > retired. > > Sadly > > Bill B.. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com