From: "Steve Ewing" 

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
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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 ƒ “ 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 Oƒ ™Keefe received his marching orders on Hubble Jan. 13
during a meeting with White House officials to finalize the agencyƒ ™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...
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Steve 
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