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I have to ask....what the F&*K is wrong with those freakin gyros? They have lost a ton of them. There has already been a couple of shuttle missions to replace gyros on this piece of crap...Im tellin you the QA team that built this baby should be taken out and shot.
Gyros on ships and planes in the US inventory can last years if not decades. The original mirror and optics was flawed.....geez. As much as it has succeeded with the fixes sent into orbit, it has been due to enourmous cost over runs in maintenance and repair it should never have needed in the first place. I think NASA needs better people running their Quality Assurance teams. How much money was spent on FIXing bugs in this thing, that should not have needed fixing?
Losing the Hubble means hey...we quit dumping money into a lousey engineering job. Lets put it toward something new and potentially more rewarding.
On top of that..if we were to actually get a Permanent moonbase, a telescope there would be a decent if not better enterprise and easier to repair for a staff already in place.
You can look at the abandoning of the Hubble as bad news if you want. But it doesn't necessarily have to be bad news.
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