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[Canine]

Happy 25th Birthday Hubble.Thank you for expanding our understanding of the universe and our place in it.You have provided many pictures of distant galaxies,butso far,no gods.

 

[GotSmart]

I lived in Marshfield MO for a year or so, Home of Hubble. There is a 1/4 size mockup of the telescope on the courthouse lawn. Everything there is named Hubble.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/10463

There only other claim to fame was when the town was wiped out by a F4 tornado in 1880.

 

[LeeRevell]

All things in low Earth orbit will come down, it's the nature of such things. Since our leaders saw fit to stupidly discontinue the Shuttle program without having a non-black follow-on system, we no longer have the ability to move a satellite to higher orbit once it begins to decay. Also, such devices usually have a finite 'life time'. Same with Hubble, it has always been known it would not last forever. It's technology is old too, for such systems. We can launch a better platform to replace it. Be nice to park it in a stable orbit, maybe one of the Lagrange Points, so it would stay there forever, but that may be too far for such things, I don't know. I have a buddy where I worked who was on the NASA team for data retrieval from the Apollo and Shuttle programs, maybe he'll have more knowledge of that.

 

[rvpopeye]

I remember seeing somewhere (PBS?) that Hubbel should keep providing excellent photos till 2020 and that they will have a replacement up before then by a couple of years. Maybe SpaceX will come to the rescue???

 

[wagm]

We were living at Merit Island when they put the Hubble up and a guy that lived by us was a shrimper, he took us out on the boat and we watched the thing take off from the top of the boat (have some awesome pictures). Before you ask, I can`t even put a picture of my MH on here,so I guess it didn`t happen---ha. Warren