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Private mission to save the Hubble Space Telescope raises concerns, NASA emails show (www.npr.org)

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[–] wjrii 4 points 8 months ago

Yup. I don't doubt he has a lot of confidence in his entire team, but NASA really come off as the adults in the room here. "Move fast and break things" only works if it's easy to fix or replace them or if no one would miss them. Hubble is a useful scientific instrument and would be ungodly expensive and involve not-insignificant danger to replace, so I can completely understand if they ultimately decide it's not worth risking 5-10 more years of data on the hope that his wanting to play-act Starfleet includes the boring preparation parts.