[extropy-chat] Bush's Schedule for NASA

[Adrian Tymes]

--- John K Clark <jonkc at att.net> wrote:
> Yesterday NASA announced its decision, not
> only would be no extra
> flight in 2008 but the scheduled one in 2005 was
> canceled too, this despite
> the fact that they already spent  $200,000,000
> developing new instruments
> that were to be installed on Hubble next year.  NASA
> said it would cost
> $500,000,000 to launch the shuttle to the Hubble and
> that's just too
> expensive; instead NASA will develop an unmanned
> probe that would latch onto
> Hubble, the probe would then fire its rocket to
> change its orbit so Hubble
> would crash into the sea. To add insult to injury
> the $300,000,000 needed to
> develop this assassin will come from NASA's
> astronomy budget.

Citation?  I know some groups that would love to ride
NASA for this specifically provable bit of idiocy
("saving" $200M when they've already sunk that much
into the project).