Comment Re:It must die to make way for the new. (Score 1, Informative) 416
No. They are not. Your information is wrong. Check your sources.
We will be without a space observatory for at least 6 years before Icarus goes up. The Icarus program is fighting right now for funding that was cut do to the latest gulf war. Icarus also is fighting for funding that is now headed towards the vaporus human settlement on the moon and mars.
The loss of Hubble is a monumental loss of at least six years of cutting edge science and duplicated effort. Hubble proved the existence of black holes yet several million dollars of upgrade parts lie in storage in florida never to see the light of day, or space for that matter.
In short. What a waste.
We will be without a space observatory for at least 6 years before Icarus goes up. The Icarus program is fighting right now for funding that was cut do to the latest gulf war. Icarus also is fighting for funding that is now headed towards the vaporus human settlement on the moon and mars.
The loss of Hubble is a monumental loss of at least six years of cutting edge science and duplicated effort. Hubble proved the existence of black holes yet several million dollars of upgrade parts lie in storage in florida never to see the light of day, or space for that matter.
In short. What a waste.
