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NASA Cannot Buy Time


Article <1996Nov15.085334.1@stosc>
From: dempsey@stsci.edu (Faraway, So Close)
Subject: Re: Hale Bopp
Date: 15 Nov 96 08:53:34 EST

In article <328BF9E3.6487@whidbey.net>, Mark <mat@whidbey.net> writes:
> WHAT THE HALE IS GOING ON???

See the rest of this thread for details.
> Why has NASA not posted any HST Hale Bopp pics since last year???
> Mark
> P.S. I had heard that NASA had "bought" HST time to view HB in
> July, August, September, and October 1996.....yet no pics.

Sorry, but NASA can not "buy" time. They do own it, but all observing time is allocated through a committee of peers and the directory of STScI.