Re: The Hubble Space Telescope...

Don't ask NASA if HST is better now than its pre-deploy specs, ask the 
astronomers who've been able to write many wonderful papers based on 
their observations using the first generation instruments with COSTAR.

David A. Scott wrote:
> Leaf Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in 
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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> > Actually, if you'd like to look at the pre-launch specs and compare them 
> > to what COSTAR and the second generation instruments' corrective optics 
> >  have provided, you'll find that HST is even better now than had the 
> > mirror been ground correctly the first time.
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>    This still makes be wonder how good would the so called second
> generation instruments be if the damn mirror was cut corectly the
> first time. I tend not to belive all the NASA hype since its in there
> interest to make things look better than they are. Its the nature
> of bad management which NASA seems to have no shortage of.
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> David A. Scott