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[i]Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, has joined the campaign to save the Hubble Space Telescope, siding with 26 former astronauts who want NASA to reinstate a manned shuttle mission that could fix and salvage the aging scientific eye. In a letter sent to the White House on Thursday, Hutchison urged President Bush to reconsider plans to retire Hubble, saying it has "not yet outlived its scientific usefulness" and that NASA has nothing comparable to succeed it. She attached to the letter a petition signed by 26 former astronauts, including Apollo veteran Walter Cunningham of Houston, Mercury's Scott Carpenter and Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon.[/i]
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