XPost: sci.space.history, sci.space.shuttle   
   From: leaf.fan@nospam.att.net   
      
   David A. Scott wrote:   
   > Craig Fink  wrote in   
   > news:6ZIwb.19342$Rk5.11556@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net:   
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   >>NASA (or better yet Congress) should pull the plug on some NASA   
   >>managers, instead of the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble Space   
   >>Telescope has contributed so much to our the knowledge of the Universe   
   >>it would be criminal not to put it in a museum for display along with   
   >>all it's achievements.   
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   >    In many ways the Hubble is a failure they never even cut the   
   > mirror correctly. Do we really want a monument to that simple   
   > error. I still think we should try to build one the right way   
   > but since management has gone so far down hill its likely our   
   > next attempt would be far worse. Hubble could have done much   
   > more if it was ground correctly. The extra lenses added to it   
   > failed to make it as good as it should have been.   
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   > David A. Scott   
      
   Actually, if you'd like to look at the pre-launch specs and compare them   
   to what COSTAR and the second generation instruments' corrective optics   
     have provided, you'll find that HST is even better now than had the   
   mirror been ground correctly the first time.   
      
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