Exclusive: Documents reveal NASA’s internal struggles over renaming Webb telescope

E-mails show agency’s controversial response to astronomers concerned about past LGBT+ discrimination.

and explore other cosmic frontiers. Its name will dominate astronomical publications for years to come.

“I think you will find this paragraph to be troubling,” wrote the external researcher to Eric Smith, the JWST’s programme scientist at NASA in Washington DC. “‘A custom within the agency’ sounds pretty bad.”

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