A fifth and final servicing mission to NASA’s venerable Hubble Space Telescope will place new financial burdens on an agency that already has had to scale back its science and aeronautics programs. It also will entail risks, both to the astronauts who will do the repair work and perhaps to the schedule for fielding a replacement for the space shuttle, which is slated to be mothballed in 2010.
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