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NASA’s latest budget which is a mere $16,500,000,000, will not have enough funding to keep the orbiting Hubble telescope in orbit. Instead they plan to spend $75 million to knock it out of orbit and crash land it in the Pacific. Not only is this environmentally damaging, it is a tragic waste of resources and will be a great loss to science. And not just in the USA, it will be a global loss.

There is a “save the Hubble” campain, to prompt Congress to overrule the desicion, and save the instrument.

There is a long history of Congress putting into the Nasa budget what Nasa or the executive branch don’t like and have taken out said Rodger Thompson, a University of Arizona astronomer.BBC news

More on this at the Guardian, and please sign the online petition at save the Hubble, hopefully it will do some good.

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