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January 30, 2004Save the Hubble SavetheHubble.com: I had been following the news about Hubble for awhile when I read in the NY Times (01/17/04) that service mission 4 (SM4) had been cancelled and the telescope would be (literally) left to its own (failing) devices. That sounded so astonishingly absurd that I felt compelled to do something and decided put up a website to congregate whatever efforts could be harvested to help support HST. I hope it will slowly grow up in importance and be a place for people to voice their concern and ideas to preserve this wonderful tool of knowledge. Thank you for your support! Here is a great Hubble site filled with pictures and information. The Hubble has been and is still one of the greatest tools an astronomer has ever had. The next generation of orbiting scopes are years from being launched. To let the Hubble go without maintenance just seems stupid given how much data it has collected and continues to collect. It would be a shame to see it become a casualty to a bureaucracy. UPDATE: Looks like that NASA might be rethinking their decision.: NASA's chief agreed Thursday to review his decision to cancel the Hubble Space Telescope's final servicing mission and let it deteriorate and go out of operation. The decision comes after the space agency was bombarded by pleas to save the craft. |
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