perfidy

NASA has decided to end support for the Hubble Telescope, arguing that further repairs to the aging satellite would be to dangerous to attempt.

While the NASA brass seem to be in accord that this is a sound, though sad, decision, I'm not so sure: I just think it's sad. Of all the projects NASA has attempted in recent years, Hubble is the most emblematic. They spent a bundle. They threw it up there. It didn't work. Some dudes went and fixed it in orbit. We see the ends of space, and glory ensues.

Its value to cosmology aside, NASA should keep Hubble operating as a constant reminder of the perils of bureaucratic planning and the intrepidness of engineers and astronauts.