That's why I suggested earlier that the country needed a long range goal and that the goal needed to be managed by the National Academy of Sciences and periodically reviewed for progress. Programs like the Pluto mission probably don't look like part of any coherent plan to many people and therefore are too easy to get picked off in funding. All these programs need to be part of a stated big picture so it can be seen that gutting one would weaken the goal and how. Richard ___________________________________ Richard Allan John Cox racox@racox.net (+37.263696,-121.981593) -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Wiggins [mailto:paw@trilobyte.net] Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 5:03 PM To: Seesat Subject: Re: NASA cancels final Hubble telescope servicing mission Gene Heyler wrote: > > >Speaking of giving missions the axe, has anyone heard anything negative > >lately about the Pluto/Kuiper Mission? > > The Pluto mission is currently alive and well, and still on schedule for a 2006 launch. Subject, of course, to the fickle whims of congress... Patrick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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