do I read this right that the environmental concerns raised years ago have finally bit the program bigtime.. damn!
a nation that chases its tail because of an ecowacko agenda is really asking for it, we see that all around us as is at the pump..
Its an open secret that the Hubble launch has been moved to October. Just as well, some of the subsystems arent ready and meeting the August deadline would be problematic.
Pictured: Crab Nebula remnant supernova which was seem by Chinese and Japanese observers in 1054ad.
My prediction - the shuttle will never fly again, except missions to the ISS.
Of course, I am often wrong.
So, if this were ever to happen, what would it be like? A second shuttle would fly to the first shuttle to offload the crew? What would they do with the first shuttle after that?
Would they jettison the shuttle to burn up in the atmosphere? Would they attempt to put it in a stationary orbit until a future flight could repair it and land it? Would they try to move it to a new orbit that a future flight could then reach and still reach the ISS?
-PJ
Too bad, Hubble is probably the best thing to happen to NASA and the science community in the past decade or so. Of course they are building some earth based scopes, and have some on-line currently with many times the resolution of Hubble.