IMHO, this is a bunch crap! NASA has become impotent. They already serviced the Hubble once.(or is it twice?). Does this mean it was too dangerous to do last time around, but they said "What the hell, let's risk some lives just for fun?" Or are they just looking for a way to kill the program so as to have more money to dump down the Moon Base rat hole? 
 
Barney B.
 
 
FROM PATRICK'S NEWS:
The verdict seems final: NASA says it is just too risky for shuttle astronauts
to fix the Hubble Space Telescope, which means an early death for the world's
premier astronomical eye in the sky.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20040208_145.html