NASA Ponders James Webb’s Tenure As Namesake Telescope Nears Launch
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In 2002, then-NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe bestowed a new name on the telescope designed to follow the revolutionary Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. “It’s fitting that Hubble’s successor be named in honor of James Webb,” O’Keefe said at the time, in a nod to NASA’s second administrator. During...
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