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Nancy Roman, the American space agency NASA's first Chief Astronomer

Roman was known as the mother of the Hubble Telescope.

Release date:

17 January 2019

Duration:

6 minutes

This clip is from

Last Word—Nancy Roman, Ralph Koltai CBE, Julia Grant, Jin Yong, Norman Gimbel

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