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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.
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It's a nice idea, but in the current, safety-first environment, it's not going to happen.
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JWST will replace HST but it's not ready yet.
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Contrary to press releases, JWST is an infrared telescope, more a replacement for Spitzer than for Hubble. I don't think there's anything resembling a true replacement for Hubble on the boards.
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Where does Hubble stand in this? What percentage of the deep sky has been imaged?
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Are we talking about taking Hubble Deep Field images of the entire sky? Considering that one of those takes ten days of observing time (not telescope time), that could take a while....