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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,...
The excitement around unprecedented new images of far-off galaxies has reignited calls from some within the scientific and queer communities to rename the James Webb Space Telescope because of...
Mar 25, 2022 · NASA was aware that discrimination against LGBTQ people took place in the agency under the leadership of 1960s administrator James Webb when it refused to remove the man's name from its...
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 ...
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...
Jul 23, 2021 · NASA is considering whether to rename its flagship astronomical observatory, given reports alleging that James Webb, after whom it is named, was involved in persecuting gay and lesbian...
Mar 1, 2021 · Opinion. March 1, 2021. 6 min read. The James Webb Space Telescope Needs to Be Renamed. The successor to the Hubble currently honors a man who acquiesced to homophobic government policies...
Nov 18, 2022 · NASA will not rename the James Webb Space Telescope, the agency announced as it shared a lengthy report into the former administrator's activities.
