[Coco] off-topic, space program

[Neil Morrison]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Taylor" <rtaylor at bayou.com>


> At 08:40 PM 1/17/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>
> >I just heard on the news part of the reason for the announcement.
> >Apparently the idea is to abandon the Hubble telescope now before
> >it's time runs out, but why Bush and his friends want to do this
> >still escapes me.
>
> I wasn't aware that the Hubble had an expiration date on it...
makes no
> sense at all.

I don't think anything in space will last forever. What goes up must
come down.

NASA was planning to refurbish and upgrade the Hubble at some
considerable cost but it seems Bush has redirected the money into
this foolishness.

NM