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I think its sad that single use consumerism culture is so pervasive that anyone would actually bemoan a thing as extremely niche as a cutting edge scientific instrument getting over tens years of use.

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That’s a bad faith take. The OP is clearly expressing their opinion that space exploration is underfunded. No one is unhappy the Hubble is going on 35 years. Think how much we would be learning if we had additional similarly scoped astronomical missions in 2000, 2010, and 2020 though.

What was cutting edge in 1990 is very far from it today.

Sending up Hubble II and Hubble III would of course not mean that Hubble I stops being used.

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