Scientist

Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The glass has defects in it, so the image is blurred from that.

A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.

One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.

In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

All of the stars rotate, have orbits around the center of the galaxy, and most of them go around the center of the galaxy in nearly circular orbits. They vary a little bit from circular, but they're predominantly circular.

The exciting results from the Hubble, other satellites and probes would not have been possible without innovative solutions to many technical problems.