NANCY GRACE ROMAN SPACE TELESCOPE

Dr Roman was NASA’s first chief of astronomy and revolutionised how the cosmos is probed

- Lee Cavendish

NASA takes pride in naming its telescopes after influential figures from the history of astronomy. Two major examples being the Hubble Space Telescope, named after famous American astronomer Edwin Hubble, and the James Webb Space Telescope, in recognition of the second NASA administrator who oversaw the agency during a monumental era for spaceflight from 1961 to 1968.