Nancy Grace Roman, who began working with NASA in 1959 and is credited as a major force behind the effort fund and deploy the Hubble Space Telescope, passed away on December 25th at the age of 93. She ...

There is a new telescope coming from NASA to bring yet another look into broad space, and it is the soon-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It is one of the highly anticipated space vessels ...

Roman was one of the first female executives at NASA, its first chief of astronomy and she played an instrumental role in making the Hubble Space... Nancy Grace Roman, 'Mother Of Hubble' Space ...

In the last century, we have observed the infinite universe using massive lenses suspended in space. Together, these telescopes — Hubble, Chandra, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, and others ...

Nancy Grace Roman, known as the "mother" of the Hubble Space Telescope and the first woman to hold an executive position at NASA, died on Christmas Day. A cousin, Laura Verreau, confirmed that Roman ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA has renamed its Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), a flagship observatory set to ...

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When Nancy Grace Roman was a child, her favorite object to draw was the moon. Her mother used to take her on walks under the nighttime sky and show her constellations, or point out the colorful swirls ...

When Nancy Grace Roman was a child, her favorite object to draw was the moon. Her mother used to take her on walks under the nighttime sky and show her constellations, or point out the colorful swirls ...

When Nancy Grace Roman was a child, her favorite object to draw was the moon. Her mother used to take her on walks under the nighttime sky and show her constellations, or point out the colorful swirls ...