[Centurion2000]

We paid for the damn thing and smoe NASA admin wants it to die 5 years ahead of schedule because that jerk is too cheap to change the oil ?

[In_25_words_or_less]

Can a NASA admin zot?

[RamsFan79]

If we go to the Moon and Mars and eventually put a telescope up there, wont the Hubble be rendered irrelevant anyway? I am all for space exploration and I think that the problems with the economy or war on terror are not enough to slow mankind's exploration of space (I'm sure someone in 13th century Spain could have made a case that Columbus' expedition money could have been better used elsewhere). The Space program should move forward in spite of anything else that is going on. I just think that phasing out the Hubble and slowly scaling back our involvement in the Space Station would only put more pressure on NASA for some big action on Bush's plan.