A NASA portrait from May 1969 shows Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy.
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Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, poses with a model of what would become the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Early NASA employees Alberta Moran and Nancy Grace Roman enjoy a brief reunion at the Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center in August 2011.
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Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, talks with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center astronomer Dr. Robert C. Cameron on January 27, 1964.
Dr. Cameron was married to NASA Goddard astronomer Winifred Cameron, who, along with Dr. Roman, was one of the first three female astronomers hired by NASA in 1959.
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President John F. Kennedy meets with recipients of the 1962 Federal Woman’s Award for outstanding contributions to government on February 22, 1962. Pictured from left to right are Dr. Allene R. Jeanes, Research Chemist at the Department of Agriculture; Evelyn Harrison, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Programs and Standard at the Civil Service Commission; Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, Chief of Astronomy and Solar Physics at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); President Kennedy; Margaret H. Brass, Attorney at the Department of Justice; Katherine W. Bracken, Director of the Office of Central American and Panamanian Affairs at the Department of State; Dr. Thelma B. Dunn, cancer researcher at the National Cancer Institute; Katie Louchheim, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (accompanying the recipients). Photo taken in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C.
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