Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—NASA has renamed its struggling Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST) in honor of the late Nancy Grace Roman, a longtime pioneering woman astronomer sometimes referred to as the “Mother of Hubble.” Roman was also the agency’s first chief astronomer. “Dr. Roman really deserves to be...
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