Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Recovering HST from orbit
Message-ID: <1991Feb10.022414.2365@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <6814@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> <91039.210444NU128479@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 1991 02:24:14 GMT

In article <91039.210444NU128479@NDSUVM1.BITNET> NU128479@NDSUVM1.BITNET writes:
>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? ...

Because we'd be lucky to see HST2 in orbit before 2010, given the rate at
which such large projects get funded and done these days.
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