ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions.
*****************************************************************************

 From today's NY Times, the terrible news.  The article goes on here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/17/science/17HUBB.html?th

You need (free) registration to the NY Times site to read this.

Basically, this is the first result of Bush's re-prioritizing.

Eric Siegel
Director of Planning & Program  Development
NY Hall of Science
Director, Connections Project



NASA Cancels Trip to Supply Hubble, Sealing Early Doom

avor those cosmic postcards while you can. The National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration decreed an early death yesterday to one of its 
flagship missions and most celebrated successes, the Hubble Space 
Telescope.

In a midday meeting at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, 
Md., two days after President Bush ordered NASA to redirect its 
resources toward human exploration of the Moon and Mars, the agency's 
administrator, Sean O'Keefe, told the managers of the space telescope 
that there would be no more shuttle visits to maintain it.

A visit by astronauts to install a couple of the telescope's scientific 
instruments and replace the gyroscopes and batteries had been planned 
for next year. Without any more visits, the telescope, the crown jewel 
of astronomy for 10 years, will probably die in orbit sometime in 2007, 
depending on when its batteries or gyroscopes fail for good.

***********************************************************************
More information about the Informal Science Education Network and the
Association of Science-Technology Centers may be found at http://www.astc.org.
To remove your e-mail address from the ISEN-ASTC-L list, send the
message  SIGNOFF ISEN-ASTC-L in the BODY of a message to
[log in to unmask]