The 1960s agency administrator's treatment of LGBTQ people has come under question.
, obtained under a freedom of information request, however, tell a different story. They show that NASA was aware of a 1969 court case filed by a former NASA employee who had been fired in 1963 because supervisors thought he was gay.
In addition, Nature found that available documents described such practices as customary in NASA during the 1960s, when James Webb was at the agency's helm. Among the documents obtained by Nature were email exchanges between NASA officials and an external researcher from spring 2021, which discussed the 1969 court ruling, describing it as"troubling.
"I think you will find this paragraph to be troubling," the external researcher wrote to Eric Smith, the James Webb Space Telescope program scientist at NASA."'A custom within the agency' sounds pretty bad," the researcher wrote, according to Nature. The documents don't contain evidence that James Webb personally targeted LGBTQ people. However, astronomers opposing the name posit that he played a major role in setting the culture at the agency he presided over. that landed humans on the moon, but also fostered the agency's focus on science. He died in 1992; 13 years later, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe decided to honor his predecessor by naming the biggest, most complex and most powerful space observatory to date after him.
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