NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: Named for a Pioneer, Not Nancy Grace the TV Host
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Fox Business host Ashley Webster misidentified NASA's upcoming telescope as being named after Nancy Grace, but the mission honors Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first chief astronomer and 'mother' of the Hubble Space Telescope. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, completed in 2025 and set to launch Aug 30, will survey about 1 billion galaxies and help uncover roughly 200,000 exoplanets, with an observation range at least 100 times larger than Hubble's; the name survived funding cuts during the Trump era after Congressional intervention.
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