The Hubble Space Telescope has encountered some problems and has not been working so well. This glitch is causing the amazing photos not to beam down to Earth. Some of the computer parts of the telescope have been sleeping for about 18 years, and need to wake up. On Wednesday a group of 40 NASA members will work on getting this problem fixed. They will start a difficult remote-control fix, but little science is needed for it. They also need to turn on the data-handling system which has not been on since the telescopes launch in 1990. This fix means they are delaying the upgrade mission from October to next year. They believe to around February. This delay is costing NASA approximately 10 million dollars per month.
I believe that this is a great idea even though it may cost millions of dollars. I think that the Hubble's pictures are very important to scientists and need to come back. Now that the telescope has not been working we may have missed many important things in space. NASA should do this fix as soon as possible because we are missing so many amazing pictures. Overall, I think even though this is a difficult, expensive repair, we should still do it for the sake of science and astronomy.
Article- http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/10/14/hubble.repairs.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch
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