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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence. Hubble Goodbye It’s time to say goodbye to the Hubble Space Telescope, distraught astronomers and the public are sending in their worries and suggestions on how to save it. NASA has decided not to service it anymore but is considering all offers put to them in the meantime. Of the hundred of emails they have received, about a quarter ask, “Why can’t the Russians help?” Others suggest towing it to the space station for repairs, said Bruce Margon, associate director for science at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which actually operates Hubble for NASA. “They are enormously concerned, they are perplexed, they are angry,” Margon said. “They ask ‘What percentage of the NASA budget is this?” And we tell them about 1 percent.” The Baltimore based institute will setup a website to take suggestions from the public. These suggestions started arriving after NASA said last week that it would not be sending the space shuttle in 2006 to service the Hubble, a mission considered necessary to enable the orbiting telescope to continue operating. The Hubble revolutionised the study of astronomy with its images of the universe. Instead, NASA is to concentrate on Bush’s proposal for manned flights to the moon and Mars. As for the suggestions for saving the Hubble telescope, Margon said the Russians might be able to help, but towing the telescope to the space station is impractical because the two are in different orbits to each other. The space station is in lower orbit, and it is not clear that the Hubble would work because of the drag from the small amount of the Earth’s atmosphere present at that altitude. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., the ranking minority member of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees NASA’s budget, wrote in a letter to NASA administration Sean O’Keefe on Wednesday 21st January 2004 that she was shocked to hear the decision given the telescope’s contribution to science over the years. “I ask you to reconsider your decision and appoint an independent panel of outside experts to fully review and assess all of the issues surrounding another Hubble servicing mission,” Mikulski said. The 2006 mission was to be the fifth and final one to the telescope before its planned retirement in 2010. The Hubble will eventually fall out of orbit and crash to Earth, probably in 2011 or 2012. “We feel we should consider every conceivable idea to get back the last four to six years of discovery that Hubble was on the brink of making,” Margon said. NASA does plan one final mission to the Hubble telescope, an unmanned rocket that will guide the telescope back to Earth for a fiery crash into the Pacific. NASA originally planned to use the shuttle to retrieve Hubble and display it at the Smithsonian. “That’s part of the heartbreak, something is going to have to visit the Hubble anyway,” Margon said. Hubble Goodbye written by Bill Barber |
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