[RadioAstronomer]

Just use a dang shuttle and get it done.

[Fast1]

I would not fly the shuttle a couple reasons when the solid boosters got framacated into segments from one piece,and second management there is less than desirable (Re Challenger) third parts for it come from Affirmative Action Infested manufacturing.

[MichaelP]

They need to suck it up and use the shuttle. Hubble needs to be saved!

Mike

[Cold Heat]

Just take all the spare parts, add a new lens and enclosure, and mount a new scope on the ISS.

Problem solved.

[Hatteras]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW!!!.....

[q_an_a]

if they closed down the Texas super colider over 200 million they can stop the Hubble. this is a joke that shows any government program designed for two years can lvie 40.

[truthchaser]

The Hubble is a sentimental favorite for everybody, and it is hard to accept that its mission might just simply be over, a couple years before the next generation space scope is deployed. This thing has served a big time fodder for Bush-bashing conspiracy theories. Robot fix-it missions have been deeemed impractical, the Shutttles aren't flying either, engineers think they can extend functionality by goign down to two gyros, the next generation scope is coming... why is this such an endless discussion?

[sauron]

Why not ask the Russians to service Hubble?

OFFER THEM HALF OWNERSHIP IN IT

They just might accept. Prestige (in helping poooor America), appeal to their slavic sense of machismo, and finally jump start their astronomy program, which they tend to neglect.

Alternative is to watch the last gyro fail, start tumbling, and years later, re-enter.

We must preserve the Hubble!

[RightWhale]

Should Congress micromanage the space program? Congress could take a real lead and create private property rights in outer space and suggest the President should invoke the withdrawal clause in the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty.

[Tallguy]

Translation: NASA-Greenbelt stands to benefit. Sen. Mikulski wouldn't give a d@mn if there weren't $$$'s in it for Maryland.

[KevinDavis]