Not long after the Hubble Space Telescope was launched, it was quickly discovered that there was a major problem with the primary mirror. It took NASA a couple of years to design and implement a solution. Within a month of the first servicing mission, the results were declared a complete success. Here we are over twenty years later and Hubble is still producing AWESOME data....
I can't believe that I hadn't considered what would happen when the Hubble finally gives up the ghost. I was incredibly stoked to discover (hey, maybe I'm just out of it) that there IS a planned successor to Hubble. It's called the James Webb Space Telescope. I hope that NASA is able to get the new telescope airborne and have some more great successes. Speaking of which....
The James Webb Space Telescope has a YouTube page, a Twitter page and a Facebook page. Here's a playlist of some of the new telescope's YouTube vids (from their Science Visualizations group of videos):
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