The White House has eliminated funding for a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope from its 2006 budget request and directed NASA to focus solely on deorbiting the popular spacecraft at the end of its life, according to government and industry sources.
Seems to me the Hubble has done more for the space program than almost any of our other expenditures. I for one would like to see the Hubble’s use continued. Is W’s asinine plan to take us to Mars still in effect? Are we actually wasting money on that? I’m still unclear as to why we are determined to continue the Space Shuttle program at all when we all know that manned space flight is unnecessarily expensive and dangerous. We should be focusing on robotics to provide a boom to that industry. Plus, it is likely to cost far less than launching/recovering re-usable manned shuttles.
Aaron Fulkerson 