Tue, Sep 30, 2008
Aero-News: Quote of the Day
ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news,
though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have
a bearing on the day's events and issues.
Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the
content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be
thought-provoking.
Reader suggestions and comments are welcome... and if
particularly intriguing, timely, or poignant, may themselves become
future Quotes of the Day.
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Aero-News Quote of the Day
"We think it's a relatively straightforward activity...
This may be a doable thing, that we can have our cake and eat it
too."
Source: Preston Burch, who manages the Hubble
program at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA will delay its
mission to the Hubble Space Telescope until next year, after the
orbiting observatory suffered a failure of its command and
data-handling system Saturday night. The problem lies with a
transmission channel on the Hubble Control Unit/Science Data
Formatter, one of many such systems used to relay data from Hubble
to the ground, where it is assembled into images. That channel
failed, causing the telescope to revert to a safe mode... stopping
all further data collection. That failure has stopped the flow of
Hubble's stunning deep-space images. While NASA hopes to have a
backup channel up and running later this week, a permanent repair
will require a new series of tasks for which the Atlantis crew has
not been trained.
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