Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Hubble knows there is interesting stuff out there, but Hubble isn't quite big enough.
I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.
When my father died, those years when he was working on the Hubble came back to me, and it seemed fitting to imagine him as having somehow merged with the large mystery that the universe represents.
The Earth - from our altitude at Hubble, we're 350 miles up. We can see the curvature. We can see the roundness of our home, our home planet. And it's the most magnificent thing I've ever seen. It's like looking into Heaven. It's paradise.
I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.
I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.
I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It's been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998.
That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.
Even with an improperly ground mirror, the Hubble delivered extraordinary images. When the flaw was corrected, the Hubble delivered images of transcendent beauty and value for many years. So too 'Terra Nova.' Even in its flawed first season, each episode was full of marvelous moments and beautiful images.
I've read the 'Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy' at least once a year since I was twelve years old.
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