I wonder why there was all of this hub bub over the Hubble... The Hubble did a good job..
If the general mob would be so interested in manned space exploration, Apollo would not have been allowed to be defunded. I think we have learned in the Schiavo business this week that the general mob doesn't know much, and is wrong about a lot of what it does know.
Because it is modular, designed to be upgraded (the upgrades are ready to go) and it sees in bands nothing elsed does or can on that scale. Will be a terrible loss to science. I just don't understand this hatred for Hubble. We spend more mony on barbeque sauce in this country yearly than a Hubble repair. (Would not surprise me it the same went for Twinkies).