Nancy Grace Roman: The Mother of Hubble | NASA

Nancy Grace Roman: The Mother of Hubble | NASA

Nancy Grace Roman: 

The Mother of Hubble

Nancy Grace Roman (1925-2018), NASA's first chief astronomer, is known as the 'Mother of Hubble.' In a time when women were discouraged from studying math and science, Roman became a research astronomer and was instrumental in taking NASA's Hubble Space Telescope from an idea to reality and establishing NASA’s program of space-based astronomical observatories.

In this image from the early 1970s, Dr. Roman is shown at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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Last Updated: May 15, 2020

Editor: Yvette Smith