NASA just might save the Hubble Telescope

[nancylebov]

They're cutting a bunch of other stuff to do it, but the Hubble is a uniquely wonderful thing, and this might be the reasonable choice.

WASHINGTON -- NASA sent Congress a revised spending plan for 2005 that would significantly cut the Project Prometheus nuclear power and propulsion program, cancel a host of international space station-based biological and physical research activities, and postpone some space science missions, including two advanced space telescopes and a Mars science lander slated to launch in 2009.

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[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I'd rather Prometheus survive than Hubble, to be honest. Not that I expect results from it beyond beautiful veiwgraph slides but it might provoke other nations into similar, more effective, R&R programs.