[NormsRevenge]

The Hubble Space Telescope (news - web sites). The future of the Hubble Space Telescope hangs in the balance, after the White House declined to approve the necessary funding to repair and upgrade the apparatus, US media reported.(AFP-NASA (news - web sites)/File)

[MikefromOhio]

I just hope that Taco Bell puts out that big cover in the Ocean again so that if it hits it we can all get free Tacos or whatever....

[al baby]

perhapes they could bring it down on iran just for laughs

[NCC-1701]

Instead of an on-orbit repair mission, send a shuttle to retrive it and bring it back to Earth. Sattelites have been brought back before. It would make a great display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

[CMOTB]

I'd like to know what will be written on its tombstone. Any ideas?

[TXnMA]

...NASA chief Sean O'Keefe canceled a planned shuttle mission to replace Hubble's fading batteries and its stabilizing gyroscopes. In the aftermath of the fatal Feb. 1, 2003, shuttle Columbia accident, a shuttle repair flight to Hubble was simply too risky, O'Keefe said.
(From posted article...)

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The future of the Hubble Space Telescope hangs in the balance, after the White House declined to approve the necessary funding to repair and upgrade the apparatus, US media reported.

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"We don't give a da*n what NASA says -- It's all Bush's fault!

---The "US Media"

[RadioAstronomer]

Hmmm... Keep spending billions on the ISS (not sure where the science is, but we keep Europe happy) and scrap the Hubble. Sigh.

[TXnMA]

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...NASA chief Sean O'Keefe canceled a planned shuttle mission to replace Hubble's fading batteries and its stabilizing gyroscopes. In the aftermath of the fatal Feb. 1, 2003, shuttle Columbia accident, a shuttle repair flight to Hubble was simply too risky, O'Keefe said. [From posted article, #1...]

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The future of the Hubble Space Telescope hangs in the balance, after the White House declined to approve the necessary funding to repair and upgrade the apparatus, US media reported. [From photo caption, #2]

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"We don't give a da*n what NASA says -- It's all Bush's fault!
--------The "US Media"

[bray]

Why are we wasting money on space anyway?? If there is so much to get out of it, let private business invest. Oh yeah, Star Trek is real.

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighting Troops

[greasepaint]

Nasa, a bunch of chickens.
When the Columbia chrashed,
a joyride seemed safe enough.

[Nachoman]

I bet the Chicoms would fetch it, so they could reverse-engineer the technology.