Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, visits the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO) in a clean room with an astronomy working group.
Shown from left to right: [Unidentified]; Harlan Smith; Ernie Ott; Roy Stokes; Kenneth Hallam; Nancy Grace Roman; Alastair Cameron; Edwin Salpeter; Walter Scott at Northrop Grumman Astronomy Subcommittee Orbiting Astronomical Observatory. (Source: photos.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/photos...)
Dr. Nancy Grace Roman was the Program Scientist for OAO-1. OAO-1 launched in April 1966 and was a solar-powered satellite designed to make precision astronomical observations and to measure the absorption and emission characteristics of the stars, planets, nebulae, and the interplanetary and interstellar media from visible to gamma-ray regions.
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A portrait of Dr. Nancy Grace Roman from NASA's Historical Reference Collection. Unknown date.
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Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy and "the Mother of Hubble," stands next to the 1/6-scale model of the Hubble Space Telescope outside the Space Telescope Operations Control Center (STOCC) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on March 31, 2017.
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Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, briefs Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on celestial objects in 1965 in Washington, D.C.
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Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, talks with Homer Newall, NASA's Associate Administrator of Science and Applications, at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona on August 11, 1967. Dr. Roman brought NASA senior leadership on tours of astronomical observatories in the mid-1960s.
Here they stand by a model of what would become the Mayall 4-Meter Telescope. The Mayall Telescope began construction in 1968 and saw first light in 1973.
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