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Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope: Letter Report (2004)

Chapter: Enclosure A: Committee on the Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope

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Suggested Citation:"Enclosure A: Committee on the Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope." National Research Council. 2004. Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope: Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11051.
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Enclosure A
Committee on the Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope

LOUIS J. LANZEROTTI, Chair, Consultant, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, and New Jersey Institute of Technology, Murray Hill, New Jersey

STEVEN J. BATTEL, Battel Engineering, Scottsdale, Arizona

CHARLES F. BOLDEN, JR., TechTrans International, Inc., Houston, Texas

RODNEY A. BROOKS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts

JON H. BRYSON, The Aerospace Corporation (retired), Chantilly, Virginia

BENJAMIN BUCHBINDER, Consultant, Bonaire, Antilles

BERT BULKIN, Lockheed Missiles and Space (retired), Woodbridge, California

ROBERT DUNN, National Consortium for Aviation Mobility, Alexandria, Virginia

SANDRA M. FABER, University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz

RICCARDO GIACCONI, Johns Hopkins University and Associated Universities, Inc., Washington, D.C.

GREGORY HARBAUGH, Sun N Fun Air Museum, Lakeland, Florida

TOMMY W. HOLLOWAY, NASA (retired), Houston, Texas

JOHN M. KLINEBERG, Space Systems/Loral (retired), Redwood City, California

VIJAY KUMAR, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

LT GEN FORREST S. McCARTNEY, U.S. Air Force (retired), Indian Harbour Beach, Florida

STEPHEN M. ROCK, Stanford University, Stanford, California

JOSEPH ROTHENBERG, Universal Space Network, Darnestown, Maryland

JOSEPH H. TAYLOR, JR., Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

ROGER E. TETRAULT, McDermott International, Inc. (retired), Punta Gorda, Florida

RICHARD H. TRULY, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado

Suggested Citation:"Enclosure A: Committee on the Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope." National Research Council. 2004. Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope: Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11051.
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Following the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and subsequent to the report of the board created to investigate the accident, NASA, citing safety reasons, decided to limit shuttle flights to International Space Station missions and to investigate other options for extending Hubble’s life. Congressional concern over this decision prompted it to ask for an independent assessment. In response the chair of the investigative board called for a study of the risks and benefits of using the shuttle for the servicing mission, and NASA subsequently asked the NRC for this study. This letter report presents preliminary findings and recommendations of that study. It urges NASA to commit to a servicing mission, notes that a proposed robotic mission would be quite complex and require significant development, and states that NASA should not preclude a shuttle servicing mission at this time. A final report will be released this fall.

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