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STScI All Hands meeting

STScI All Hands meeting. April 6, 2005 Topics: STScI Budget; Status of SM4. March ‘05 Budget (assumes SM4 work). $(K) FY04 FY05 FY06 HST $50,850 $48,414 $46,318 JWST $7,698 $9,486 $12,343 Other $3,005 $3,125 $3,219 $61,553 $61,025 $61,880 FTE

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STScI All Hands meeting

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  1. STScI All Hands meeting April 6, 2005 Topics: STScI Budget; Status of SM4

  2. March ‘05 Budget (assumes SM4 work) $(K) FY04 FY05 FY06 HST $50,850 $48,414 $46,318 JWST $7,698 $9,486 $12,343 Other $3,005$3,125$3,219 $61,553 $61,025 $61,880 FTE HST 330.0 302.9 281.9 JWST 41.2 54.2 68.3 Other 118.0118.0118.0 489.2 475.1 468.2

  3. Hubble Servicing still has strong public support GSFC had a good PDR for robotic servicing but NASA HQ still not supportive of this option O’Keefe has left NASA; Mike Griffin expected new Administrator (April 12 confirmation hearing) There is congressional support for Hubble: Udall, Ehlers; Boehlert questioned NASA plan Senator Mikulski has vowed publicly to fight for Hubble; it is a top priority for her Servicing Hubble

  4. MSNBC Report on PDR

  5. Post PDR De-Brief Comments Quotes in each bullet represent a different reviewer • “Incredible amount of work, nothing to preclude going forward” • “No show stoppers, congratulations to the Team; overwhelmed by depth, breadth, commitment; outstanding review” • “Kudos, world-class team working under terrible conditions” • “Great review, congratulations, no show stoppers” • “Excellent job, Team has identified all the risks; no liens to proceeding to CDR. Compliments to Leckrone for superb science talk; when you believe in something strongly enough, you’ll do it; this (HRSDM) is the right thing for NASA to be doing” • “Excellent review; thank you to Mike Weiss for an extraordinary closing statement” • “A+, no issues, congratulations, all SRR RFAs have been answered” • “The word ‘impossible’ is not in the vocabulary of this Team” • “Nothing to preclude going to CDR” • “Incredibly impressed with the Team; honor to be named to this Review Board; I’m inspired by this Team” • “No major issues, will write few minor RFAs” (this from the Astronaut Office, as reported by Dennis Dillman [the same Astronaut Office that last year was very worried about the risks of installing COS]) • “Congratulations to the HST Team for a successful PDR; last Summer, we thought they were nuts to have PDR in Spring ‘05” (Dillman)

  6. The NASA Budget

  7. Useful facts for SM4 • The importance of Hubble Science with SM4 has been endorsed by every community and NASA planning committee in addition to special Nobel-level groups: Bahcall & Lanzerotti • Costs to NASA science programs of Hubble servicing by the Space Shuttle are well established at $120M/yr • NASA stated publicly on February 17, 2005 that costs of SM4 were included in NASA’s 5-yr plan and are not a factor in the decision whether or not to carry out SM4. Safety was the only factor. • Congress appropriates funds annually for Space Shuttle flights in a single budget line regardless of destination. This line would not get a “refund” from science for a flight to service Hubble. • Assertions that Hubble cannot be serviced for less than $1 billion are not supported by the facts. Astronomy, NASA, and the public will benefit enormously by upgrading Hubble through another servicing mission.

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