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James Edwin Webb (October 7, 1906 – March 27, 1992) was an American government official who served as Undersecretary of State from 1949 to 1952. He was the second Administrator of NASA from February 14, 1961, to October 7, 1968.
Robinson joined NASA in 1989, and quickly became a manager at the Goddard Space Flight Center.He has been Deputy Center Director of the John H. Glenn Research Center, where he oversaw 114 missions, from 2005 to 2013 was the NASA Deputy Chief Engineer, and from 2018 to 2022, was the director of the Webb Space Telescope Program.
After the Apollo 1 fire took the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee on January 27, 1967, Bergman discovered and revealed the existence of a NASA document that became known as the Phillips Report, which led to a minor scandal complicating NASA's recovery from the fire, and causing administrator James E. Webb much ...
James Webb: Tenure at NASA. When the Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite, “Sputnik,” into space and the space race heated up, Webb was put in charge of the United States ...
Fresh off the release of awe-inspiring photos from the James Webb Space Telescope, program director Gregory Robinson visited "The Daily Show With Trevor Noah" on Tuesday.
The SVP forced NASA to defend its decision to develop the Saturn V launch vehicle and a Lunar Excursion Module, delaying its announcement news conference to July 11, and causing NASA Administrator James E. Webb to hedge by calling the decision tentative, keeping the Earth-orbit rendezvous and direct-ascent methods as possible backups, but still ...
The NASA Office of Inspector General (NASA OIG or OIG) is the inspector general office in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the space agency of the United States. The OIG's stated mission is to "prevent and detect crime, fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement and promote efficiency, effectiveness, and economy throughout NASA."
The James Webb Space Telescope wasn’t without issue while it was being developed and tested. The project faced a month-long delay in late 2016 due to an unexpected outcome while testing the ...