Wasted Space Funds
Re “Congress Can Keep Our Eye on the Universe Open,” Commentary, Feb. 23: I would applaud louder to your call for repairing the Hubble Space Telescope if you had more correctly zeroed in on the problem. Hubble isn’t threatened by a lack of funds, but by a gross misallocation of money.
The space station, which gobbles up the bulk of NASA’s budget, is nearly worthless for conducting science. It’s good only for zero-G work at its center of gravity, it leaks way too much air to use the vacuum of space, it’s way too rickety for high-resolution pictures of the Earth, and the astronauts spend much of their time just maintaining it.
Miguel Munoz
Los Angeles
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