Shadowed By Controversy, NASA Won't Rename New Space Telescope

NPR ^ | September 30, 2021 | NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE

[twister881]

They could name it the Webb Hubbell Telescope, after Chelsea’s biological father.

[llevrok]

At some point, you just have to tell all these whiners to go F themselves and move on.

[nascarnation]

Or even better, the Hubbell-Mezvinsky telescope.

[Vision]

“NASA does not plan to rename its new $10 billion technological marvel, the James Webb Space Telescope, despite concerns about it being named after former NASA administrator James Webb, who went along with government discrimination against gay and lesbian employees in the 1950s and 1960s.”

lol. They want to change the name of a telescope because they guy wasn't a radical homosexual activist 70 years ago. How mentally ill.

[RckyRaCoCo]

You’d think they’d be happy that it might get good shots at Uranus.

[BobL]

“But some people, while thrilled about the scientific promise of this telescope, have taken issue with naming it after Webb, who ran the agency during the key years when it was working to put astronauts on the moon.”

For heaven’s sake, they had a MISSION they were hell-bent on accomplishing. If having Drag Queens running through the halls of Mission Control would have helped them reach the moon, they would have hired them by the thousands.

[null and void]

That was a low blow.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

There’s an entire planet that pays tribute to gay males - so we’re even! (Thank you, Uranus!)

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This means they are getting ready to change the name to the Fudgepacker Telescope.

[Rurudyne]

I’m all okay with discrimination against homosexuals.

Homosexual acts should have remained illegal everywhere.

[DesertRhino]

“He was also the second appointed administrator of NASA from February 14, 1961, to October 7, 1968. Webb oversaw NASA from the beginning of the Kennedy administration through the end of the Johnson administration, thus overseeing all the critical first manned launches in the Mercury through Gemini programs, until just before the first crewed Apollo flight. He also dealt with the Apollo 1 fire.”

Very problematic. /s

[Secret Agent Man]

In other words James Webb, discriminated against warped sexual perverts.

Everyone practices discrimination every dam day. Its how we weigh our choices.

The fact is they do not like his morals. The cant attwck his morals because they dont want people attacking their morals. We can all choose our morals we live by.

They try to attack ‘discrimnation’ and make it negative, when it actually is neutral. Discrimination is how people choose things and not choose others. Ut in realiy this is just a stealth attack against a persons’ morality.

Its how perverts can try to look like they have the moral high ground while rolling around in crap at the bottom of the societal barrel.

[antidemoncrat]

“James Webb, who went along with government discrimination against gay and lesbian employees in the 1950s and 1960s.”

So he pays the price for government discrimination against gay and lesbian employees. What was he supposed to do??????

[Tommy Revolts]

This is comical! The guy was the Administrator of NASA during Apollo, for crying out loud.

You booty bandits and rug munchers can shut the hell up. Go about your business.

[Viking2002]

More pointedly:

[Spacetrucker]

Cmon, man, it was FUNNY! Dont be such a snowflake.

[Paladin2]

Webb?

“Just the facts, Mam...”

[BenLurkin]

The play on words.

You missed it.