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Originally Posted by tartare
Indeed.
Weeks of terror they were saying as it sequentially unfolds - too far away for any human to intervene if it goes wrong.
The pictures will be amazing.
Yea, decades of work and several billion dollars at risk - both during the launch and the subsequent weeks of it doing its origami trick.
Best of luck - I'm really hoping they got it all right this time. No going back to fix it like they did Hubble...
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