[sleavelessinseattle]

You raise a great point, actually...AS advances in adaptive optics (that compensate for atmospheric "mirage" distortion as light reaches a terrestrial telescope) get better, WILL there be a need to build a Bigger Better Visible light Telescope in Space? I know the computer combination of images from synchronized optical telescopes into a single high res image is creating virtual "lenses" of great size and precision.

[RightWhale]

WILL there be a need to build a Bigger Better Visible light Telescope in Space?

Sure there will be continuing benefit to space telescopes, especially an adaptive array of large size such as a few million miles across. That one should be able to read a license plate on Beta Lyrae. There is probably a hardcore amateur somewhere who is doing some adaptive optics of his own, wouldn't that be a kick?