Calls for Hubble repair flight

Published: Mar 10, 2005
Source: www.cnn.com



WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Astronomers and a U.S. senator renewed calls Wednesday for a repair mission to NASA's aging Hubble Space Telescope, even though the Bush administration's proposed budget would see it die in orbit.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski, a Maryland Democrat whose state is home to the Space Telescope Science Institute and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, told the space agency that a failure to keep working toward a mission to fix Hubble could be against the law.

In a letter to Frederick Gregory, NASA's acting administrator, Mikulski noted that Congress appropriated $291 million for fiscal 2005 for a Hubble servicing mission.continue..