Re: Use the backup
When HST was delayed by Challenger disaster they had to keep telescope in storage for about four years. Keeping it in flight condition cost about $6 million a month, in late 1980s dollars. If this second, incomplete telescope could have flown in 1990 (it could not), then it has been in a dirty, uncontrolled environment full of horrid oxygen and other corrosive gases for 30 yeas since then: it certainly can not now,
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