NASA has scheduled a mission to service the Hubble. This should keep the space telescope flying and producing great science until 2013 or so.
Obviously, there are a lot of caveats in there-- the mission isn't scheduled until 2008, so the Hubble needs to last that long, and there can't be major delays or disasters with the Shuttle before then-- but this is genuinely good news. Congratulations to the scientists and politicians who lobbied hard for this.
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