Please don't run me out on a rail either, but I think any shuttle mission sent to hubble should be for the express purpose of bringing the old boy home. It deserves to be in the Air & Space museum alongside the X-1, the Wright Flyer, and other icons of our advancement over the last century. Hubble has done so much to advance our understanding of the cosmos that I feel letting it burn up in reentry would take something special and awesome away from future generations. My kids deserve to have the chance to look upon it in wonder. Call me sentimental.

K