XPost: sci.space.history, sci.space.shuttle   
   From: hubble.hugger@nospam.att.net   
      
   Don't ask NASA if HST is better now than its pre-deploy specs, ask the   
   astronomers who've been able to write many wonderful papers based on   
   their observations using the first generation instruments with COSTAR.   
      
   David A. Scott wrote:   
   > Leaf Fan  wrote in   
   > news:Wrbxb.338349$0v4.18825410@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:   
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   >>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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   >    This still makes be wonder how good would the so called second   
   > generation instruments be if the damn mirror was cut corectly the   
   > first time. I tend not to belive all the NASA hype since its in there   
   > interest to make things look better than they are. Its the nature   
   > of bad management which NASA seems to have no shortage of.   
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   > David A. Scott   
      
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