Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, you are absolutely correct. The Hububble sat in a Lockheed facility, right here Sunnyvale CA for two years, without final testing, waiting for the shuttle program to resume. I used to work at that Lockheed facility. Jim At 12:37 PM 10/2/98 -0400, you wrote: > >Good heavens! Perkins-Elmer is a perfectly capable firm. The problem with >the Hubble was that NASA, to save bucks, refused to pay for the final >tests, which would have revealed the astigmatism. > >The problem has now been corrected, of course, and Hubble has been giving >us stunning images for more than a decade. It has been a wonderful device, >and the "paper weight" canard is a cheap and quite undeserved jab -- the >better jab would be at NASA, which is said to stand for "Needlessly >Assinine and Stupid Arrangements". If it were up to me, I'd fire the lot >and turn space exploration back to the military, where it belongs. But >that's far off-topic, so I'd suggest that conversation is better conducted >off-line. > >Marc Jim Brick (650) 470-1132 http://www.photoaccess.com