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...Endeavour shuttle astronauts performed the most complicated space repair ever attempted. And doing so, they proved at last that man (meaning men and women, of course; please don't write) can do real work in space, and do it efficiently. They not only saved Hubble. They saved NASA, which with failures stretching back to Challenger has rapidly been losing public favor and political support. Just as it was coming to be seen as yet another wasteful government bureaucracy, NASA does the Hubble rescue and shows that man in space can be useful...
This, of course, is the rationale for NASA's next great project, the space station, a place where wonderful new chemicals, cures and gizmos yet undreamed of are to be produced. And for those still justifiably skeptical about these claims, the Hubble repair provides yet another role for man in space: concierge. Who, after all, will service our huge earth-serving space infrastructure, the satellites that bring us Beavis and Butt-head, that allow weathermen to guess wildly a full seven days into the future, that can rattle the pocket pagers of every Rogaine salesman in the country? Who will...
This provision covers the case, generally agreed to be reasonable by those at the Computer Society meeting, of administrators stopping programs that have intentionally or unintentionally run amok consuming resources. Another example is the repair of malconfigured mail forwarding files that are causing mail messages to circulate in endless loops between machines...
Hoffman's task was to participate in spacewalks to conduct servicing and repair activities on the Hubble. The telescope was launched in 1990 with a misshapen mirror, due to a manufacturing error, which prevented it from discerning the more remote objects in the cosmos...
...were very worried whether this repair could come off," says Fazio. "But Jeff was always very positive about...