Astronomer drama is maybe the weirdest drama:
The James Webb Space Telescope will remain The James Webb Space Telescope, despite criticism from some astronomers who refuse to call it that.
They object to honoring a NASA administrator who led the agency at a time when the government persecuted gay workers. But after an extensive review of historical records, NASA now says it "found no evidence that Webb was either a leader or proponent of firing government employees for their sexual orientation."
"Based on the available evidence, the agency does not plan to change the name of the James Webb Space Telescope," the agency said in a statement released on Friday, Nov. 18.
NASA to the petitioners:
I mean, look, in many ways, NASA is just as woke as any government agency. Pretty much all of the entire government is now. But scientists are also very methodical and careful and deliberate, and they obviously did their homework here:
Odom and his colleagues reviewed over 50,000 pages of documents covering the period from 1949-1969.
"I'm satisfied that we've done our due diligence, that we have gone through the records that we needed to go through," he says.
