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Until 2010 or so. No more shuttles were scheduled to service it any more anyway. It has effectively already been decommissioned.

According to Aviation Week & Space Technology, the new NASA administrator told people designing robotic Hubble repair (and/or deorbiting) mission to stop working on that and switch back to work under the assumption of one final crewed mission. Now, with the damend foam still falling off, this is very unlikely...
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