The Webb telescope’s latest stumbling block: Its name

Many astronomers were disappointed when NASA’s up-and-coming space telescope, the successor to the vaunted Hubble Space Telescope, was named for James Webb, a former NASA administrator who led the agency through the glory years of the Apollo missions. Why not name it for an astronomer, the way other space missions — Hubble, Kepler — have been, instead of a bean counter? But they held their tongues.

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