The Atlantic
NASA’s Controversy In Naming Their New Telescope
Sunday, October 24, 2021,
By Sophie Gomprecht
, University Professor at the Maxwell School, was interviewed by The Atlantic for the article “.â€
O’Keefe, who was the NASA administrator in 2002, discussed the impact Webb, whom this new telescope is to be named after, had on the world of space. He said, “Here was somebody who was really engaged in something roughly akin to the promise of what [the space telescope] could do.â€