Nasa to save Hubble telescope
The US space agency has given the go-ahead for a robotic mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, Nasa officials have announced.
The US space agency has given the go-ahead for a robotic mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, Nasa officials have announced.
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Date: 2004-08-11 03:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-11 03:19 pm (UTC)Yay!
I had lunch with Sean and ...
Date: 2004-08-11 03:44 pm (UTC)*cough*
*straighten skirt*
on the other hand
Date: 2004-08-11 03:56 pm (UTC)Mr O'Keefe said he would ask Congress for funds to finance the repair mission, which is estimated to cost between $1bn (£550m) and $1.6bn (£8.7m).
Erm. how can something 1.6 times as large in one currency be 1/63 as much in another? $1 billion is GBP547 million, so $1.6 billion should be GBP875 million, not GBP8.75 million...
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Date: 2004-08-11 07:56 pm (UTC)