[skrause]

There are no more Space Shuttles that could service Hubble. When it fails it will simply be dead.

[yholio]

(Cut to Elon Musk, who begins to furiously sketch some plans on a paper napkin)

[melling]

Cut to Hacker News 4 years ago this month when I tried to make the case for sophisticated unmanned space exploration:

“For example, if the Hubble, or its replacement, needs to be fixed, we should have an unmanned answer, for instance”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8540712