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.

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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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