"The committee has recommended that NASA keep its options open,
that NASA should not preclude a space shuttle servicing mission to
the Hubble Space Telescope at this point in time."
Source: Louis Lanzerotti, a consultant for Bell
Laboratories and Lucent Technologies who chairs the National
Research Council committee on the Hubble Space Telescope. He was
quoted in the Houston Chronicle. The NRC committee wants NASA
Administrator Sean O'Keefe to reconsider his decision to scrub a
planned repair/replenishment mission to the space telescope. In the
wake of the Columbia tragedy, O'Keefe deemed such a mission "too
risky."
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