I heard on NPR that he is going to propose abandoning not only the shuttle, but the International Space Station? Is that true? That can't be good, with all the other countries involved.... Joe Bauman wrote:

Hi Friends, This is the big day. President Bush is to announce the country's new space initative at 1 p.m., and I will be writing a story about it. If someone wants a comment included in my article, pro or con, concerns, encouragement, etc., please send me a note as soon as possible after the talk. Please give me your name as you'd like it in the paper as well as your city of residence. As always, I can't promise that everything I write will get in, and keep it short is the newspaper mantra. Thank you, Joe

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I am VERY disappointed that he plans to phase out the ISS and de-orbit HST from what I understand. Both have added greatly to our space experience. I was personally involved in developing the unique rodent feeding system for shuttle flights since the mid 80's and to be used to multi generation studies on ISS. The ISS had purposes in uderstanding zero gravity science and to expand space science into the public and private sector on earth, i.e. new medical developments. The Hubble images and new science speaks for itself!!! We were close to seeing back in distance and time to the beginning of the universe. I cannot see how we could walk away from such far reaching and broad scientific programs that affects many aspects of our lives on earth, as well as in space, for many years to come. Just last night on satellite tv there was a program on ISS and the next generation of yound scientists meeting in Houston - the kids were thrilled about the future for this space program, that may now be going away. How short sighted for both Hubble and the ISS! Jim Stitley Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote: Hi Friends, This is the big day. President Bush is to announce the country's new space initative at 1 p.m., and I will be writing a story about it. If someone wants a comment included in my article, pro or con, concerns, encouragement, etc., please send me a note as soon as possible after the talk. Please give me your name as you'd like it in the paper as well as your city of residence. As always, I can't promise that everything I write will get in, and keep it short is the newspaper mantra. Thank you, Joe _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com