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I'm curious, and I am not trying to be confrontational so please don't take my comment that way, how this telescope (or Hubble for that matter) will help us on Earth? I don't see the correlation between astronomy and how that can affect our lives here. I can see the parallels of flights to...

$9.8 billion??? That's the cost of an aircraft carrier. I just can't understand how NASA can justify that kind of cost for a spacecraft.