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Those days are long gone. In Washington NASA is under siege, its reputation tarnished, its programs in disarray, its future clouded. Overhead, the crippled $2.1 billion Hubble Space Telescope orbits, its vision blurred by an embarrassing, inexcusable flaw in one of its reflecting mirrors. In Congress legislators are having second thoughts about any further funding of the highly touted $37 billion space station, questioning its usefulness and NASA's ability to assemble and operate...
Central to the question of what went wrong is the question of whether Hitler's rise to power was inevitable. Was there some fatal flaw in the history of Germany that predestined it to the swastika and the gas chamber? In one sense, everything that has happened may seem inevitable, simply because of the fact that it did happen. Yet it is extraordinary how narrowly Hitler triumphed, how many accidents and variables had to line...
...planet circling a distant star or detect a black hole at the center of a galaxy. At least 40% of the experiments planned for the telescope will have to be postponed until engineers can make lenses for the craft's instruments that will compensate for the mirror's flaw. Astronauts will then have to ride the shuttle into orbit and space walk to the telescope, where they will fit the new lenses. And getting those spectacles to Hubble may take three to six years...
...serious flaw in one of its mirrors hobbles the orbiting Hubble telescope until 1993, at least, while the shuttle fleet is grounded by the second hydrogen leak in a month...
...intransigence or "a lack of political savvy." It was because Anthony would not be coerced into abandoning his principles "for the good of PBH." Cohen would be proud of Anthony's strength in the face of such attacks which question his love for the institution. His "fatal flaw" was not buckling under to superior authority, not selling out in the name of consensus-building. We should all have flaws as terrible as the courage of our convictions...