No Money For Hubble Service Mission

starexplorer writes "SPACE.com is reporting that the White House has eliminated funding for servicing the Hubble Space Telescope from its 2006 budget request. After many options 1, 2 were explored, is this the death knell for Hubble?"

Too bad...if only NASA had

[Anonymous Coward]

pitched it to Bush as a way to finally find those missing WMDs, the administration would have spent billions on it....

Wha?

[metalhed77]

Can't they just stop off on the way to mars?

Crash it...

[connah0047]

Crash it like they did the Mir...then I can put my blender up on EBay as set it for hundreds as "Hubble Debris".

When will it end.

[St.Anne]

*ring* *ring* "Hello, Energiya?" "It's the wealthy ingrates." "Huh? No, America not France." "We've got the 100 million, you want it in dollars or *heheh* euros?" "What!?! France bought all Soyuz missions for the next ten years?" "Go ask Chirac? Yeah, very funny."

Re:Hubble on eBay

[connah0047]

Yeah, put it on EBay for an auction. Mark it as "Will not ship, must pick up."

A Gift from the White House

[lbmouse]

Maybe it'll crash on me so I won't have to worry about Social Security.

Re:Hubble on eBay

[mnmn]

That brings up an important question. Can parts of hubble be run without sending up a service rocket? Say we do not service it but try to keep using it, what would go wrong?

any company can start taking ground photos etc from hubble and make things profitable.

would be fun to buy space junk and run linux on their CPUs..... http://hubblecontrol.sf.net...

Taco Bell's second chance!

[af_robot]

Last time Taco Bell promised a free vouchers for everyone if MIR hits a floating target.
NASA, PLEASE, don't miss the bulls eye now! I want my free burrito!

Re:Hubble on eBay

[CreatureComfort]

Yeah, and as long as we can end the auction before the next gyro goes out, we can even provide free delivery with a controlled de-orbit...

Re:Death for Hubble?

[Anonymous Coward]

An interesting way to describe America! Poetic, even.

Paypal button on homepage?

[David Ishee]

How about putting a PayPal donation button on their homepage?

(just kidding)

Re:Priorities

[Ohreally_factor]

In case you hadn't hear, we already won that war, and currently we're having a great deal of success with our peacekeeping efforts. In fact, there's going to be free elections in Iraq in less than two weeks.

Maybe you were thinking of the cost of the upcoming war with Iran, but I have it on good authority that it's going to be a cake walk, and our soldiers will be greeted as liberators.

Bring Democracy to the Hubble?

[Dimmer]

Maybe letting the Hubble burn up in a fiery inferno is Bush's way of bringing democracy to it.

If you ask why a space telescope would need democracy, you are acting very un-american.

Re:We ought to sell it before it is salvaged...

[Anonymous Coward]

You try saying "Hubble" with a Chinese accent!

"Hurble.. Hurber.. Murble"

Never gonna happen.

Re:Hubble on eBay

[GWTPict]

As long as Hubble has the capability to shout 'over here, up a bit, up a bit, now left' you might have a chance.

It's all about money...

[Anonymous Coward]

You know, if they could just find a way to use the Hubble in porn production, there would be no shortage of funding for it!