STScI All Hands meeting

April 6, 2005

Topics: STScI Budget; Status of SM4

March ‘05 Budget (assumes SM4 work)

$(K) FY04 FY05 FY06HST $50,850 $48,414 $46,318JWST $7,698 $9,486 $12,343Other $3,005 $3,125 $3,219

$61,553 $61,025 $61,880

FTEHST 330.0 302.9 281.9JWST 41.2 54.2 68.3Other 118.0 118.0 118.0

489.2 475.1 468.2

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Servicing Hubble

• 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

MSNBC Report on PDR

Post PDR De-Brief Comments

• “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)

Quotes in each bullet represent a different reviewer

The NASA Budget

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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.