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

"The committee has recommended that NASA keep its options open, that NASA should not preclude a space shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope at this point in time."

Source: Louis Lanzerotti, a consultant for Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies who chairs the National Research Council committee on the Hubble Space Telescope. He was quoted in the Houston Chronicle. The NRC committee wants NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe to reconsider his decision to scrub a planned repair/replenishment mission to the space telescope. In the wake of the Columbia tragedy, O'Keefe deemed such a mission "too risky."

FMI: http://hubblesite.org