Jared Isaacman, the billionaire entrepreneur behind the recent Inspiration4 commercial space mission and the upcoming Polaris Dawn private space flight, would like to save the Hubble Space Telescope on his own dime. All he needs is for NASA to approve such a mission.

However, according to NPR, some managers at the space agency, far from being excited, expressed concerns in emails obtained by the news organization.

The Hubble Space Telescope was one of the first and still is one of the most celebrated space observatories that NASA has ever deployed. It was launched in April of 1990 by the space shuttle Discovery. The telescope was designed to be periodically serviced by the space shuttle, which turned out to be very fortunate because NASA soon discovered, much to its chagrin, that the mirror was flawed, greatly inhibiting its usefulness.

The space shuttle Endeavour visited Hubble in December 1993 and installed, among other things, a corrective lens package that restored the space telescope to its full capacity. NASA conducted four more servicing missions to Hubble, the last being aboard the space shuttle Atlantis in May 2009.

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