Friday, January 16, 2004

AP - The Hubble Space Telescope will be allowed to degrade and eventually become useless, as NASA changes focus to President Bush's plans to send humans to the moon, Mars and beyond, officials said Friday. [Yahoo! News - Science] Hubble is probably the most significant scientific side-effect of human space flight. Once again, space opera fantasies and their political payoff take priority over the much more interesting and valuable realities of scientific discovery. 8:06:23 PM