"Hubble 3-D", Tech Trek and Scientist "Lives with a Star" on This Week @ NASA

Plus, the shuttle crew and support teams are on target for launch; and, what they talked about at Goddard's Space Symposium.

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• education
• IMAX

[chernobila]

anybody else thinks that this commander looks like Bruce Willis

[Paddyslippers]

would it be possible to take the hubble back to earth? place ut un a museum

[sbergman27]

@Paddyslippers Hubble is probably good through 2021 or so. JWST, scheduled for launch in 2014-2015, and the next big step forward, is over-budget and seeking funds. LISA, the TPF, and TSSM are all in fiscal limbo. There is no money for recovering Hubble. The best tribute to HST is to do the best space science we can on the meager funds the US citizenry is willing to provide, and to fight letting the HSF program appropriate science funds to blow on its go-nowhere pork projects.

[akierrs2]

@Paddyslippers ye put it in the space shuttle

[joachim2464]

@Paddyslippers not after the space shuttles retires in a year

[gngeannakakes]

@chernobila Anything is possible - the limiting factor is money. Also, the Hubble is in a high enough orbit that it would probably take a long time for its orbit to degrade so I expect it to keep on getting upgraded by future spacecraft, probably private spacecraft under contract to NASA.

[jhmoonman]

Thanks for the answer, adrianlunnon! I didn't realize how large, a diameter,the mirror of the Hubble is!!!!

[Adrianlunnon]

If the Hubble was placed on the moon it wouldn't be able to focus on earth. It would be way to bright and way to close.

Have you ever seen photos of the moon taken with Hubble?

[jhmoonman]

I agree with SkyscraperJim! But, I would like the Hubble to be placed on the moon,so we can observe the Earth!!! + other planets!

[spacekid645]

you can't bring it back if there is no vehicle capable of returning it safely to earth. shuttles will retire this year while Hubble will still be good for another 10 years.

[MechaBlazeEagle]

If it cant be upgraded, Its better to bring it back & make it a historic monument to a great achievement of humanity instead of letting it rot in space.