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Article: NASA agrees to ask for independent review on fate of Hubble.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune
- Article date:
- January 29, 2004
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Byline: Danny Jacobs
WASHINGTON _ NASA officials have agreed to take a second look at their decision to drop the next servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, potentially prolonging Hubble's time and use in space.
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe said in a letter Wednesday to Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., that retired Adm. Harold Gehman will lead an independent investigation of the decision two weeks ago to cancel Hubble's fifth and final service mission.
Without that servicing mission, scheduled for as early as 2006, Hubble could stop working years before its scheduled 2010 retirement date.
But National Aeronautics and Space ...