The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), established at Garching bei Munchen near Munich in 1984, provides similar support for European astronomers.One rather complex task that falls to STScI is scheduling observations for the telescope.. 
In late 2004, several congressional members, led by Senator Barbara Mikúlski, held public hearings and carried on a fight with much public support (including thousands of letters from school children across the country) to get the bush administration and NASA to reconsider the decision to drop plans for a Hubble Resch mission.The Nomination in April 2005 of a new NASA administrator, Michael d.. 