[IP] Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4 and futurecancelled.
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From: "Kevin G. Barkes" <kgb@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:18:00
To:Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4 and future
cancelled.
Just coincidentally, this arrived just moments before the Hubble message:
Mars Mission a Trojan Horse?
By Suneel Ratan
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,61937,00.html
02:00 AM Jan. 16, 2004 PT
President Bush's plan to go to the moon and to Mars without much additional
funding will force NASA and Congress to make hard choices -- particularly
regarding the space shuttle and the hugely expensive International Space
Station, observers said.
The Bush plan increases NASA's budget by just $1 billion over the next five
years. That means the space agency has to figure out how to carry out the
mission -- first a return to the moon and later a trip to Mars -- without a lot
of additional money in its budget.
The first places to look for resources are the station and shuttle, which
consume about a third of NASA's $15 billion budget. One question that's sure to
arise -- assuming Bush's vision for the moon and Mars sticks -- is whether to
kill the station and shuttle now, instead of in six to 12 years as the plan
currently envisions, said Howard McCurdy, a space historian at American
University in Washington. That would free up at least $25 billion over the next
five years to go to the moon and Mars.
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