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[i]In the meantime, the agency has to work within some limits imposed by the telescopes' history. It won't be able, for example, to release any pictures until after the lenses are covered by all that additional hardware. USA Today's Dan Vergano was given an image of the telescope that was used at a recent meeting of the National Research Council. The level of redaction indicates that there will be some significant limits on any NASA design teams. There are a couple of things that really need to be emphasized: NASA did not get a complete system and still has a lot of work to do. It could save them money, but those savings will mostly go toward taking a project in development and making it more likely to fly in an era when NASA is strapped for funds. And despite the similarities in mirror sizes, this is not a replacement for when Hubble inevitably starts to fail, since the hardware is quite different. But that's not a bad thing, given that it will answer questions we can't currently address. As for the fact that NASA was given two pieces of hardware? Michael Moore of the Astrophysics group said, "We don't anticipate ever being rich enough to use both of them, but it sure is fun to think about, isn't it?"[/i]
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