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maintaining paylod capabilities
DJL — (archived)

I have to agree.
But I guess it goes with what the general direction of space exploration is going to be. Presidents and Space agencies seem to have embraced this "race to the planets" concept, which would put the payload feature on the bench.

I personally think that if the private sector can successfully complete their journey to space in the tourism industry, then they will start concentrating on "cargo" solutions.

Going back to the subject, if one of the selling points of the shuttle was to be able to bring down satellites and this had never been done yet, I would hope someone uses this argument to convince them to do as such with the Hubble.

Look at the marketing event: you will close an era with a majestic moment. The last shuttle journey will also also be Hubbles last journey.

Now that would be something that makes the news ;)

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