[Explorer89]

One never knows....

But answer this: how can we swallow the risk of going to the moon and to Mars if we cannot swallow the risk of sending the shuttle to service the Hubble. I read it on CNN yesterday that only missions that go to the Space Station orbit are allowed in case of a problem like Columbia's. If we can't stand the risk of getting to the Hubble, we're never going anywhere.

[hopespringseternal]

If we can't stand the risk of getting to the Hubble, we're never going anywhere.

Sometimes you just have to stop throwing good money after bad.

If we don't start making real changes to the way we do things, we will never get anywhere in space. That doesn't mean there aren't great things like Hubble that will be left behind. It means that there are better things ahead if we can manage to switch paradigms and go for them.

[cogitator]

If we can't stand the risk of getting to the Hubble, we're never going anywhere.

It's only too risky because it's the Space Shuttle. We need a better, more reliable, and hopefully considerably less expensive (to paraphrase Daniel Goldin) way of getting crew and equipment into space. Repealing the law of gravity would be a good first step, but there isn't much support for that in Congress. D*mn liberals.