Originally posted by ADVISOR
Well I'll tell you, since you mention the ISS, personally if NASA decides to do any thing with Hubble, they should attach it to the ISS.

Hubble is the oldest and most reliable peice of equipment NASA still has in service, as far as I know.

Originally posted by mattguy404
So this is the Hubble telescope that made this discovery, the same piece of scientific equipment that NASA were thinking wasn't worth fixing?

Maybe discoveries like this will lead them to do real science instead of building useless white elephants like the International Space Station.

Well I'll tell you, since you mention the ISS, personally if NASA decides to do any thing with Hubble, they should attach it to the ISS.

Originally posted by Hal9000
As far as the eventual fate of Hubble, I think when it reaches the end of it's useful life, I think they should try to either bring it back, or maybe attach it the ISS, as a piece of history. It does not have to work after they attach it. It would only be for posterity. Unfortunately, one day the ISS will also have to come down, so I would rather bring it back somehow. Maybe send up an unmanned reentry vehicle with a parachute, that they can recover in the ocean or something. Just a thought.

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a Science Update to report on a significant discovery about planets orbiting other stars at 2:30 p.m. EST, Thursday, Nov. 13, in NASA's James E. Webb auditorium. This unique discovery, made by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advance Camera for Surveys instrument, also will be featured in the Nov. 14 issue of the journal Science.

Originally posted by chapter29
This is big news...?!