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Preview: Colleague Bob Zimmerman Reports That Hubble on Its 35th Birthday Only Needs New Gyroscopes to Be Born Again. More

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

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Preview: Colleague Bob Zimmerman Reports That Hubble on Its 35th Birthday Only Needs New Gyroscopes to Be Born Again. More.
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This is John Batchel. Bob Zimmerman is here to remind us that Hubble is 35 years old right now. Good for Hubble. However, it's down to its last two gyroscopes, one on backup, one on prime. What is to be done? Jared Isaacman, the man now nominated to be NASA administrator and will be. There's no blockage. He's going through

0:24.2

the confirmation hearings. Proposed a mission that he would fly privately in Dragon Capsule to

0:32.1

install more gyroscopes. And Bob is positive about that. But NASA stopped Jared Isaacman before too dangerous.

0:41.0

Now Mr. Isaacman is to be the National Administrator.

0:45.3

Will he stop himself?

0:47.0

Here's Bob to explain.

0:49.1

More of this tonight.

0:51.0

Well, Isaacman proposed doing a rescue mission to put in new gyroscopes.

0:56.0

NASA said, no, that's too dangerous.

0:59.0

Derek Isaman is going to become NASA administrator likely.

1:02.0

So that might change.

1:04.0

There might be a real effort to put together another rescue mission to Hubble.

1:08.0

And if you put new gyroscopes on it, there's no reason why it cannot go for many, many, many, many more decades.

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