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Sep 30, 2021 · NASA does not plan to rename its new $10 billion technological marvel, the James Webb Space Telescope, despite concerns about it being named after former NASA administrator James Webb,...
Mar 25, 2022 · New documents suggest that NASA officials dismissed concerns raised by the LGBTQ community over the name of its newest observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope.
Prescod-Weinstein, one of the astronomers leading the charge to rename the telescope, organized a petition last year along with several other scientists to rename it. The petition has been...
Nov 18, 2022 · The controversy over the telescope’s name took off in March 2021, when Prescod-Weinstein, Tuttle, Walkowicz and Nord published an opinion piece in the magazine Scientific American arguing for...
Mar 25, 2022 · A group of astronomers had led a community petition to change the name, alleging that the telescope’s namesake, former NASA chief James Webb, had been complicit in the persecution and firing of...
Dec 19, 2022 · For half a decade now, influential young scientists have denounced NASA’s decision to name its deep-space telescope after James E. Webb, who led the space agency to the cusp of the 1969 moon...
Nov 18, 2022 · Shadowed by controversy, NASA won't rename its new space telescope. Now, NASA has publicly posted the full report describing its investigation of Webb's time in government, both at the State ...
