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   Lynndel Humphreys wrote:   
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   > Would it not be just as easy to capture the Hubble and return it safely.   
   > Let's face it if 007 foes can do something similar surely NASA can.   
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   The problem is that Hubble only has, what, 3 of it's   
   original 6 gyroscopes still working, and it needs two   
   to maintain itself and be usable. The gyroscopes wear   
   out, and the next is expected to fail with a couple   
   of years. Once it starts tumbling then there's no   
   way to do anything with it remotely.   
      
   It will take an act of Congress to save what is   
   inarguably one of the finest instruments of science   
   ever invented from premature death due to bone-headed   
   stupidness on the part of NASA.   
      
   JazzMan   
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