De-orbiting Hubble preferred over a post-shuttle servicing mission
Following the Hubble Space Telescope's final scheduled space shuttle servicing next year, scientists probably will opt to ditch the observatory in the Pacific Ocean sometime in the coming decade, rather than mount another mission to service it with an Orion capsule or other piloted spacecraft still...
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