NASA budget to bring down 'dying' Hubble telescope

The aging Hubble Space Telescope -a path-breaking scientific instrument whose eye-catching images have won fans around the world -would die in orbit under the 2006 budget for NASA proposed on Monday.

The aging Hubble Space Telescope -a path-breaking scientific instrument whose eye-catching images have won fans around the world -would die in orbit under the 2006 budget for NASA proposed on Monday. The U.S. space agency's total budget would go up 2.4 percent to about $16.5 billion, but only $93 million would be spent on Hubble, with $75 million of that used to bring the observatory down to Earth safely.

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