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Ultimately it becomes so cheap we'll be able to put workers up there to assemble and maintain the telescopes, just like on Earth. We might see telescopes in telescope farms near a small station for the workers. It might even be possible to send workers out to the Sun-Earth L2 point to maintain telescopes there.


For what it’s worth, people have already fixed telescopes in space (ISS astronauts operating on Hubble).


Shuttle astronauts. ISS and Hubble are in very different orbits.


Totally, I mixed up my spacewalk associations, thanks.




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