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Udall to lead space subcommittee Democrats

Bart Gordon, the ranking Democrat on the House Science Committee, has tapped Rep. Mark Udall (D-CO) as the new ranking minority member of the space subcommittee. Udall succeeds Nick Lampson, who lost his bid for reelection in November. Udall was one of the leaders last year of Congressional efforts to restore some kind of Hubble servicing mission after NASA canceled the SM5 shuttle servicing mission; his district includes Ball Aerospace, which built the two instruments that would have been installed on the telescope. Udall said that he hopes the subcommittee will address “the life of the Hubble Space Telescope” as well as “the President’s Moon-Mars proposal and how it should be funded”. Trivia: Mark Udall is the son of Morris “Mo” Udall, the longtime Congressman who made a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976.

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