Officials Dispute Engineers on Telescope's
Fate
Sometimes, it's hard to cope with a friend's future demise, even
if you are talking about a orbiting telescope. Top NASA officials
on Monday likened the expected demise of the Hubble Space Telescope
to a death in the family and disagreed with agency engineers who
wanted to keep the popular program alive. NASA's head of space
science along with Bill Readdy, head of space flight at NASA, and
John Grunsfeld, the agency's chief scientist -- took issue with
reports by NASA engineers that argued it was no riskier for
astronauts to pay a service call on the orbiting telescope than it
was for them to build the International Space Station.
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