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This may be obvious to everyone else, but today I learned that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Webb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Webb is not th
by elihu 10y ago
This may be obvious to everyone else, but today I learned that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Webb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Webb is not the same person as 2016 Democratic primary candidate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Webb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Webb
I feel a little better know. I was wondering why we would name a space telescope after that guy.
- yk 10y agoPerhaps we should start naming space telescopes after politicians, so that NASA's budget has an easier time in congress.
- gruturo 10y agoThis is precisely what happened. Edwin Hubble was an astronomer, James Webb a NASA administrator.
- watersb 10y agoThe Robert Byrd Green Bank Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bank_Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bank_Telescope
- robin_reala 10y agoThat made me wonder where the Jodrell Bank Observatory got its name from, turns out it was an archer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jauderell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jauderell
- Florin_Andrei 10y agoTLDR: The James Webb that the scope is named after was the NASA administrator during the time of Kennedy and the heroic days of the US space program.