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From: NU128479@NDSUVM1.BITNET
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Recovering HST from orbit
Message-ID: <91039.210444NU128479@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Date: 9 Feb 91 03:04:43 GMT
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You talk of fixing the HST, is their any plans to build a new one? Surely,
NASA learned from its' mistakes!???? I feel a new hubble would be the best
alternative (it will take several years to build it though) but why spend
all this money and time on fixing a crippled telescope when it won't perform
as good as a new one? Or as good as it was supposed too? I know people would
call it a waste of money - throwing the Hubble away - but such immense trouble
and resources are going into a defective project that should just be scrapped.

I am still pissed off that the mirror is defective. I know that I do not have
the knowledge or experience to critically evaluate this project, but any
project of this size (the Hubble) should have been evaluated from the top-down
many times. I believe the "top-down" evaluation was performed by some
engineer(s) with an over-estimated sense of knowledge, if performed at all.
It's just not the mirror -  so many things are wrong with the HST that trying
its frustrating to even think how all those things could be designed wrong.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Start over,NASA.I know you have many good people who work there, but you have
serious problems with your upper management. Admit you made mistakes and do
it right the next time. I would love a fully functional Hubble, and if NASA
does correct the current Hubble with satisfactory results, I will be happy.
But eventually NASA or some other country will launch a new improved telescope
and I feel we should start on it now, instead of committing its' resources
on fixing a mistake.

Steve Harter.