In 2002, NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe announced that the agency’s next telescope would be named after James Webb, who led NASA during the 1960s as it prepared to land astronauts on the moon.
James E. Webb cause of death: What happened to James E. Webb?
On Monday, the first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided humanity with a breathtaking new view of the universe; a first-of-its-kind infrared image so far out in space that it shows stars and galaxies as they appeared 13 billion years ago.
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and NASA officials unveiled the new image Monday (July 11)at the White House.
It is the first full-color image from the $10 billion observatory, which launched into space last year, and the highest-resolution infrared view of the universe ever captured.
James Webb died of a heart attack on March 27, 1992, at the age of 85, at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington.
