Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!UMKCVAX1!CARBUCKLE From: CARBUCKLE@UMKCVAX1.BITNET (Valentine M. Smith) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.politics Subject: space program Message-ID: <90039.0515.CARBUCKLE@UMKCVAX1> Date: 8 Feb 90 05:15:00 GMT Sender: Forum for the Discussion of Politics Reply-To: Forum for the Discussion of Politics Lines: 7 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM Gateway Atlantis is scheduled for a 2/22 launch, that may well be delayed. My beloved Hubble telescope mission has been moved back from March to April.(This mission was to have gone in October of the year the Challenger bought the farm)The reason I'm so excited about it is that conservatively, this telescope is to ex- pand our knowledge about the universe sevenfold. I'm always curious about the\ the universe, so I've hoped this mission would fly for a long time now. What do you think?