This is greatnews, if true:
NASA may spend as much as $1.6 billion to save the Hubble Space Telescope, and scientists have been told to begin planning a robotic mission to save the orbiting observatory, the Baltimore Sun reported.
An audience of about 200 engineers, astronomers and technicians at the U.S. space agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, which controls the operations of the telescope, cheered when Administrator Sean O'Keefe told them to find a way to repair the telescope, the paper said.
The Hubble Space Telescope is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I'm very pleased to hear that we're gonna do what we must to keep it going.
Just don't tell Sherwood Boehlert. Prick.