White House Cuts Hubble Servicing Mission from 2006 Budget Request
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WASHINGTON - The White House has eliminated funding  for a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope from its 2006 budget request  and directed NASA to focus solely on de-orbiting the popular spacecraft at the  end of its life, according to government and industry sources.
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Flush with a newly approved $16.2 billion budget, NASA will be able to flesh out a way to save the Hubble Space Telescope, choose a new spacecraft and develop new ways to get back to the moon, Administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe said Tuesday.
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One of the four astronomical instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope shut down earlier this week and engineers are trying to pin down the problem. The other three instruments continue to operate normally.
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The space shuttle should be used to service the Hubble Space Telescope and can do the job  without posing unacceptable risks to the astronauts, NASA's leadership was told Wednesday.-The Washington Post
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The Bush administration is considering less expensive options to putting up six new weather satellites equipped to monitor global warming, the White House's science adviser said Thursday.
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Trying to save the famed Hubble Space Telescope (news - web sites) with a robot would cost $2 billion with just a 50-50 chance of success, an aerospace
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is drastically scaling back efforts to measure global warming from space, just as the president tries to convince the world the U.S. is ready to take the lead in reducing greenhouse gases.
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The president's proposed $2.9 trillion spending plan includes a nice boost for the space program, but cuts environmental protection. Maybe we can move to Mars. Luke O'Brien reports from Washington.
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When Sean O&#39;Keefe was sworn in as NASA (news - web sites) administrator Dec. 21, 2001, at the top of his agenda was to bring fiscal discipline to a space agency that had recently allowed a $5 billion surprise
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Departing NASA boss Sean O&#39;Keefe today said he doesn&#39;t regret canceling the last shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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By ALEX DOMINGUEZ  BALTIMORE - The main camera on the Hubble Space Telescope shut down again over the weekend, the third outage in less than a year for the instrument, NASA announced Monday.
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Amid uncertainty over the fate of the Hubble Space Telescope and with a key instrument not working, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe gave the go-ahead Monday for planning a robotic servicing mission.
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NASA's departing boss, Sean O'Keefe, said Friday he does not regret canceling the last shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope &#151; or anything else during his three years on the job.
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The aging Hubble Space Telescope -- a path-breaking scientific instrument whose eye-catching images have won fans around the world -- would die in orbit under the 2006 budget for NASA proposed on Monday.
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WASHINGTON -- The&nbsp;announcement Wednesday by&nbsp;the National Academy of  Sciences that NASA scrap its plan to robotically repair the Hubble Space  Telescope and instead plan a manned shuttle mission for the endeavor was met by  by&nbsp;congressional leaders&nbsp;with both support and  reservations.
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OUTLOOK FOR HUBBLE: The newest report on a plan to save the popular, aging space telescope by repairing it with a robot says it would cost $2 billion and have just a 50-50 chance of working.
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The White House has approved a fiscal 2008 budget request of $468.9 billion for the Pentagon, $4.7 billion more than expected last year, according to a memorandum obtained by Reuters.