newscientist.com — In an orbital first, astronauts opened up and installed new electronics on one of the Hubble Space Telescope's most important instruments on Saturday. But NASA must now wait for the results of a battery of tests to see if the ambitious repair job was a success.
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rogerstrongMay 18, 2009
@ASSASSYN360: For some of us, the purpose of a space agency is the hard achievement of becoming a space-faring race. The agency isn't the goal - space is.Making sure that every single district in every single country gets an equal cut for the money and jobs - and doesn't hold out for more - may an achievement in global politics and a worthy goal for you, but for many of us it's a big useless artificial cement wall in our way that doesn't need to be there. Becoming a space-faring race is already hard enough.
chevyorangeMay 18, 2009
I'll just send a robot to Hawaii for my vacation, its safer for me.
dochirinMay 18, 2009
Just an observation: The James Webb Space Telescope will not be a succesor of the Hubble since it's "just" an infrared telescope (Hubble's main ability is that it can observe both infrared and ultraviolet parts of the spectrum) the actual true successor of the Hubble will be the AT-LAST (Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope) with a theoretical launch date set to year 2020.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Technology_Large-Aperture_Space_Telescope">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Technology_L ...</a>
Closed AccountMay 18, 2009
10 gajillion bazillion
badgerfightMay 18, 2009
I first read that as "compete"