in reply to The most important near-term goal of a space program:
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FIX HUBBLE
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FIX HUBBLE
The Hubble Space Telescope is perhaps the single biggest success that NASA has ever had when you factor in bang/$ ratio - that's including the botched mirror..
That they're down to only 2 working gyroscopes & in a degraded orbit is the result of a neglected servicing mission years overdue.
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