I think it's not so much that it was a huge gamble. It was more that it was a sensitive time politically, to make that gamble. I mean, if they found nothing?

I think it's not so much that it was a huge gamble. It was more that it was a sensitive time politically, to make that gamble. I mean, if they found nothing? Sure, that's still a question Hubble should be trying to answer. But right after such a rocky start, the politically obvious choice would have been to go for easy wins. The timing was as ballsy as anything else, if not more so.