The Harriet Tubman Space Telescope and the Lavender Scare at NASA: What happens when a telescope zooms in on the politics of Earth?

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Naming the telescope after her would be cool, but why the hell hasn’t the US Treasury put her on the $20 bill yet??

They made the announcement back in 2016. It’s ridiculous that it hasn’t happened yet. And however bad James Webb may have been, Andrew Jackson was definitely worse.

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How about Katherine Johnson?

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If I wanted to go to a place I barely had rumors on, I’d take her as an advisor I guess. What boxes did she tick? How did she make it stick to enough stuff it defended as a thesis? Where the Despair money at?

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