From: "Geo" 

damn, the day after I said it they did it. Bunch of a$$holes.

Geo.

"Steve Ewing"  wrote in message
news:opsk02m1fksagvys{at}news.barkto.com...
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:15:02 -0500, Geo  wrote:
>
> > If we had the money I'd say lets do both but with a half trillion
> > deficit I just know that manned mars is going to all but kill programs
> > like hubble and probes. It's such a waste of our limited resources to do
> > this now.
>
> Funny you should mention that...
>
> http://www.space.com/news/hubble_budget_050121.html
> =====
> White House Cuts Hubble Servicing Mission from 2006 Budget Request
> By Brian Berger
> Space News Staff Writer
> posted: 21 January 2005
> 01:49 pm ET
>
> WASHINGTON - The White House has eliminated funding for a mission to
> service the Hubble Space Telescope from its 2006 budget request and
> directed NASA to focus solely on de-orbiting the popular spacecraft at the
> end of its life, according to government and industry sources.
> [...]
> Sources said O'Keefe received his marching orders on Hubble Jan. 13 during
> a meeting with White House officials to finalize the agency's 2006 budget
> request. With both robotic and shuttle-based servicing options expected to
> cost well in excess of $1 billion, sources said, NASA was told it simply
> could not afford to save Hubble given everything else NASA has on its
> agenda, including preparing the shuttle fleet to fly again...
> =====
> --
> Steve 
> http://www.qmss.com/sewing

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