Saving Hubble: Boffins Weigh In

Jul 19, 2004 10:08

The NASA administrator is unwilling to launch the previously-scheduled repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. But he did ask a blue-ribbon committee to look at it, and also evaluate a possible robotic repair mission.

Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope is a brief 10-page letter offering the recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences committee that studied the problem.

A thicker report will be along in the fall.

hubble, repair, space, telescope, astronomy

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