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NASA Won't Rename Telescope After 1,200 People Protest LGBT Discrimination
due to launch the powerful new space observatory—seen as the successor to the famous Hubble telescope—on December 18, 2021.But concerns have emerged over the new telescope's namesake, former NASA administrator and ex-U.S. undersecretary of state James Webb.In an open letter publicly available on Google Docs, scientists Lucianne Walkowicz, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Brian Nord, and Sarah Tuttle highlight Webb's leadership during the Lavender Scare, a term referring to the discrimination against homosexual people in the U.S.