Steny Hoyer, Scientist?

Posted by Moonage on 30 Mar 2005 | Tagged as: National Politics

Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer called on NASA Tuesday to go ahead with plans to send a robot to service the Hubble Space Telescope while officials from the space agency said such a mission likely won’t happen due to proposed budget cuts.

"This is a very important mission for us to continue and complete," he said during a tour of the Hubble lab, which holds the robotic arm that could be used to fix the telescope.

What else would he say there?  When searching govtrack.us, this is the result when searching for Hubble:

0 bill(s) matched your search Hubble.

The primary reason Hubble is not being funded at this time is new satellites are in orbit and in the process of being placed in orbit that far exceed the capability of Hubble.  Hubble raised the standard, these satellites are Hubble’s next generation.  I have in the past discussed Hubble, nothing has changed since then.  Why Hoyer feels delaying progress to keep old technology is preferable is beyond me.  There are limited funds available, encourage Goddard to build a better Hubble and people like me will be behind them 100%.  As it is, this is just grandstanding with no substance.

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