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Manned spaceflight saved the Hubble telescope from being space junk, it's not difficult to imagine further situations where manned spaceflight can solve problem
by minikites 12y ago
Manned spaceflight saved the Hubble telescope from being space junk, it's not difficult to imagine further situations where manned spaceflight can solve problems with unmanned objects.
- restalis 12y agoManned maintenance of Hubble proved to be unfeasible from an economical point of view. It would have been cheaper to just crash command to the old and broken telescope satellite and then send another one instead.