Hubble's Improving View Worth Servicing Mission Risk, Argue Astronomers

Credit: NASA
Astronomers angry and confused at NASA's decision not to mount another servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope say Administrator Sean O'Keefe has cut down the orbiting observatory in its prime, using specious reasoning about the risk of a mission at a time when the telescope may offer...

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