The name of the James Webb Space Telescope will not be changed following a NASA investigation into alleged wrongdoing by the former administrator.
into alleged wrongdoing by the former administrator for whom the $10 billion space observatory is named after.
A team examined thousands of documents and other correspondence from the period of American history referred to as the “Lavender Scare” — the rooting out of homosexuals from the federal workforce that started in the 1940s and continued for decades. The investigation wasn’t launched until 2021, despite years of calls by astronomers and other scientists to remove the former NASA administrator’s name from the telescope.
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