I just knew it. I blogged a few days ago about the George Bush goes to Mars garbage and warned that it was "a massive unfunded/underfunded mandate that doesn't make a whole lot of sense from either a science or an engineering standpoint."
Today I read over at The Story So Far that Bush's Moon-Mars scam is costing us the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA's been told, it seems, to scrap everything that doesn't get us to the Moon and Mars and that apparently includes the most important piece of hardware in the history of cosmology and astronomy, the HST.
