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Causality1 | 4 years ago

With the retirement of the shuttle, Starship is the only vehicle in or near operation capable of bringing Hubble back to earth intact.

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wolverine876|4 years ago

Lots of other capabilities are unique to lots of other systems (especially NASA - most of what they do is a unique capability!). What do you think of those?

Causality1|4 years ago

I can't figure out what your point is. I'm saying Hubble is such an incredible achievement and pillar of the spirit of space exploration it's worth spending the money to bring it home even if doing so doesn't generate any scientific data in and of itself.

ChefboyOG|4 years ago

...they're also great?

The parent comment was just that it would be cool to bring Hubble back eventually, and that Starship seems promising towards that end. It's not a diminishment of all other space-focused organizations.

selectodude|4 years ago

Sure, SpaceX doesn't have a Hubble Space Telescope in space and NASA doesn't have the capability to return it to Earth. I'm not sure where you're going with this.