Nancy Grace Roman Helped Win Funding for Hubble Space Telescope
Scientist was NASA’s first head of astronomy and won a rare accolade when Lego made her into a minifigure
Though she never won a Nobel Prize, the astronomer Nancy Grace Roman earned an accolade likely to give her even more cachet among tomorrow’s scientists: In 2017, Lego AS released a Women of NASA set including a plastic likeness of Dr. Roman.
By the time she was 10 or 11, she was star-struck. Her family had moved in the mid-1930s to Reno, Nev., where she found the skies were exceptionally clear. She toted a pocket book called “Seeing Stars” and started an astronomy club for girls.
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