Erin M. May, PhDApr 26, 2022

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Between meetings today I thought I'd talk about #NASA #JWST and all the exciting #science we can expect from it starting in a few months!

(Yes, I made this travel mug ❤️)

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Show threadErin M. May, PhDApr 26, 2022

A quick note: if you ask me what #JWST stands for I'll tell you it's the Just Wonderful Space Telescope

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-needs-to-rename-the-james-webb-space-telescope/

The James Webb Space Telescope Needs to Be Renamed

The successor to the Hubble currently honors a man who acquiesced to homophobic government policies during the 1950s and 1960s

Scientific American
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@_astronoMay
Thanks for sharing this, it was a good read. I think its always a bad idea to name these things after people. Everything humanity has ever achieved through science has only been made possible because of the contributions of millions of people across many generations, naming our technology after certain individuals would invalidate the efforts of everyone else involved.
Apr 27, 2022 at 9:46pmWeb