George Bush Kills Hubble

To shift money away from Hubble and into the Mars mission, George Bush's NASA administrator took away Hubble's remaining lifetime. They cancelled the servicing mission -- even though there are two new instruments ready to go onto it -- and they won't replace the gyros, which have a high failure rate. Hubble is expected to be dead by 2008, leaving American astronomers without space based eyes for at least 8 years.