[boris]

The thing is obsolete; better pictures are available from giant ground scopes with adaptive optics. The shuttle itself is obsolete and should remain grounded. If we lose another one, I guarantee the last two will never fly.

There's a better replacement for Hubble on the way (Webb); be patient.

--Boris

[jpsb]

Have you ever heard the expression "a bird in hand". Web is still on the drawing board and with 500 billion dollar deficets, new entitlement programs, a commitment to the ISS a dollar droping like a rock and a "new mission" to go to trhe moon and mars,(yea right, like we've got a trillion dollars for that) there is a good chance Web will never be built. Even if Web is built and successfully launched it is not a low earth orbit telescope, if anything goes wrong (Murphy) Web will be space junk. Hubble is up thre and working extremely well, doing great science, you want to trade that for a promise to do something in 10 years or so?

[blam]

"There's a better replacement for Hubble on the way (Webb); be patient."

That's what I've read also.

[Thermalseeker]

There's a better replacement for Hubble on the way (Webb); be patient.

True, but do we have the launch capacity without the shuttle to put it in orbit?