Absolutely. The cost, even with current cheapening launch costs, would still be astounding. As long as we’re using chemical rockets fuelled from earth we are go

Absolutely. The cost, even with current cheapening launch costs, would still be astounding. As long as we’re using chemical rockets fuelled from earth we are going to be really limited in terms of what we can put in space - and again, assembly - we couldn’t even get Hubble right first time, and it has taken thousands of hours of spacewalks to keep operating. It’s totally been worth it though. Stepping stones - if the new class of earth based telescopes finds something worth looking at, there will be space telescopes that make the JWST look like a toy - but not for a while yet. This is basically the “cheap” trial experiment.