Nancy Grace Roman (The Mother of Hubble)
Nancy Grace Roman (The Mother of Hubble)
Washington DC, United States
Nancy Roman made important contributions to stellar classification and motions, and became the first female executive at NASA, and served as NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy throughout the 1960s and 1970s, establishing her as one of the "visionary founders of the US civilian space program". She created NASA’s space astronomy program and is known to many as the "Mother of Hubble" for her foundational role in planning the Hubble Space Telescope. Throughout her career, Roman was also an active publi
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The Hubble Space Telescope turned out to be the most scientifically revolutionary space telescope of all time. Ed Weiler, Hubble's chief scientist until 1998, called Roman “the mother of the Hubble Space Telescope.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2020/05/20/nasas-32-billion-planet-finder-space-telescope-re-named-for-mother-of-hubble/#a8a01384b58e
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Jo Leath ⊙2
[P7.2020.22] 31/05/2020
For enlarging the visionary capacity of a whole planet. Thank you

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