Savor those cosmic postcards while you can. NASA decreed an early death yesterday to one of its flagship missions and most celebrated successes, the Hubble Space Telescope. In a midday meeting at the Goddard Space Flight Center, two days after President Bush ordered NASA to redirect its resources toward human exploration of the Moon and Mars, Sean O'Keefe told the managers of the space telescope that there would be no more shuttle visits to maintain it. "This is a pretty nasty turn of events, coming immediately on the heels of W's endorsement of space exploration." Fly him to the moon, then, if it's so damned important. This is foolish. NASA Cancels Trip to Supply Hubble, Sealing Early Doom | 
