[jpsb]

The incredibly stupid decisions of this administration continue to amaze me. I never thought I would seen a Republican administration show such an inability to think. I never thought I would see NASA display such fear at the thought of sending a man into space. NASA needs to get out of the space business, NASA doesn't have the neccessary guts to go into space.

[Dave S]

You going to volunteer to fix Hubble?

[Frank_Discussion]

A binding constraint to return to flight is that Shuttle must have a safe haven, and the ISS is the only choice for the timeframe of a Hubble servicing mission. You can't launch a shuttle mission to both Hubble and ISS.

NASA get's bashed for not following the rules and not having enough safety measures in place, so it establishes a no-tolerance policy against rule-breaking, along with new rules to acheive a greater safety margin for the program. Then people get all up in arms when the rules restrain the available missions, so there's a bunch of complaining that NASA's "not thinking" or is somehow cowardly.

I want to see Hubble refurbished, too. But it won't be a shuttle mission to do it, since the people signing the check have demanded more restraints. For NASA's blame in this, if it had followed existing rules we may not have been discussing the whole issue.

It's a mess.