Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!usc!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ut-emx.UUCP!clyde From: clyde@ut-emx.UUCP (Clyde W. Hoover) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Hubble Space Telescope Keywords: HST Message-ID: <15235@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 13 Jul 89 20:11:00 GMT References: <1016@hydra.gatech.EDU> <351@aeras.UUCP> <2983@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <355@aeras.UUCP> Sender: news@ut-emx.UUCP Lines: 11 The Kodak-figured backup HST mirror is in storage waiting to be used for some other project, along with a smaller mirror to test fabrication and figuring technology. This comes from a long story in this month's Sky and Telescope by someone who has been involved in the Space Telescope project for a long time. Shouter-To-Dead-Parrots @ Univ. of Texas Computation Center; Austin, Texas clyde@emx.utexas.edu; ...!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!clyde Tip #268: Don't feel insecure or inferior! Remember, you're ORGANIC!! You could win an argument with almost any rock!