Re: "The Shuttle Was a Mistake"
- From: NOSPAMjmtl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jay Masino)
- Date: 02 Oct 2005 02:07:47 GMT
Darkwing \(Badass\) <theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com> wrote:
>> in 2010. There are no plans to send a shuttle to service the
>> world's greatest telescope, but the schedule calls for 18 shuttle
>> flights to finish the ISS, plus 10 ISS supply missions that's
>> an average of 5.6 shuttle flights per year. Anyone who would bet
>> on getting 28 flights out of these rickety-old jalopies has been
>> living on some other planet. Even with a crew of just five,
>> that's 140 rolls of the dice. That's a big gamble to support a
>> space station that is now acknowledged to be of little value.
>
> But it's the world's greatest space station. If they were abandoning the ISS
> and were only sending up shuttles to fix the Hubble the same people would
> still be bitching about not saving the ISS. People just like to bitch.
The "world's greatest telescope" is presently in development (the James
Web Space Telescope). The Hubble is a great bird, but there may be
limited value in keeping it going until the James Webb can be launched.
--- Jay
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