Hubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
Few can be unimpressed by the images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Many will have heard of the decision not to service the Hubble but rather let it die and guide it to a watery grave in the oceans of earth.

At first I was saddened if not angered by this. The reason given? Unacceptable risk of a manned mission. Risk? Space flight by its nature is risky business.

Hubble is good PR for NASA, delivering pretty pictures of dramatic features never before seen except through the eyes of science fiction artists. But, is it time to move on? Science is more than pretty pictures. The amount of data from Hubble can fill an encyclopedia every day; more than enough for a team of scientists to analyze for years to come.


See more Hubble Bubble at SPACE.COM.

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