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by rtkwe 2576 days ago
We did but not any more 1) there's no longer anything like the shuttle available the only thing that could get close would take two launches to stage the parts and another for the crew capsule (not to mention most US capsules would have to evacuate the entire capsule to go outside iirc) and 2) most of the current space based telescopes like James Webb will be much much further out than Hubble was and most that get announced are also planned to orbit much further from Earth.