Nancy Grace Roman (1925–2018) was NASA’s first chief astronomer, its first female executive, the “Mother of Hubble,” and the woman who built its space-astronomy programme from scratch — yet she remained far less famous than the telescope she made possible.
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Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first chief astronomer and a key figure in developing the Hubble mission, is honored by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which arrived at the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of its scheduled launch. Roman, who lived from 1925 to 2018, was known as the "Mother of Hubble" for building NASA's space-astronomy program from its early stages.
NASA's first chief astronomer created its space-astronomy programme, helped turn Hubble into a real mission and now has a newly launched observatory carrying her name. The post Nancy Grace Roman (1925–2018) was NASA’s first chief astronomer, its first female executive, the “Mother of Hubble,” and the woman who built its space-astronomy programme from scratch — yet she remained far less famous than the telescope she made possible. appeared first on Space Daily .
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