This artists illustration represents the clinical capabilities of NASAs James Webb Space Telescope. Both imaging and spectroscopy will be main to the Webb mission. Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI).
NASAs Webb Program Director Named to TIME100 List.
The head of NASAs largest space science mission has actually been called one of the most influential individuals on the planet by TIME magazine. Gregory Robinson, NASAs James Webb Space Telescope Program Director, was called to the TIME100, the magazines yearly list of the 100 most prominent leaders. Robinson shares this years recognition with other TIME100 honorees such as President Joe Biden and Oprah Winfrey.
Robinson supervises the Webb telescope, the premier area observatory for the next decade. Webb will check out every stage of 13.5 billion years of cosmic history– from within our planetary system to the most remote observable galaxies, to everything in between, in order to help us understand our place in deep space. Robinson, who leads the program from NASAs Science Mission Directorate in Washington, joined the team in 2018.
” Greg has actually shown amazing management on NASAs James Webb Space Telescope, through both the difficulties and unbelievable successes of this historical mission,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “Congratulations, Greg, and thank you for your amazing service on behalf of NASA and all of humanity.”.
By Natasha R. Pinol, NASA
May 29, 2022
Gregory Robinson, NASAs James Webb Space Telescope Program Director, was named to the TIME100, the publications yearly list of the 100 most prominent leaders. Greg Robinson, program director for NASAs James Webb Space Telescope at NASA Headquarters, provides a quick interview on NASA Television as he and the launch group keep an eye on the countdown to Webbs launch December 25, 2021, at Europes Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. I certainly desire to acknowledge an extraordinary group of NASA engineers, researchers, service technicians; our contractor and academic community base; and partners across the world, who have actually demonstrated amazing resiliency on the Webb objective through design, development, testing, launch, and now commissioning,” said Robinson. As a seasoned executive, he served as deputy center director at NASAs John H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and as NASA deputy chief engineer. Prior to leading Webb, Robinson was the deputy associate administrator for programs in NASAs Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters.
TIME says its list acknowledges the effect, innovation, and accomplishment of the worlds most influential individuals. TIME published a tribute by John Mather, Webb senior task researcher at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, on Robinsons accomplishments.
Greg Robinson, program director for NASAs James Webb Space Telescope at NASA Headquarters, offers a brief interview on NASA Television as he and the launch team keep an eye on the countdown to Webbs launch December 25, 2021, at Europes Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Webb is a big infrared telescope with a 21.3-foot (6.5-meter) main mirror.
I certainly desire to acknowledge an amazing team of NASA engineers, scientists, specialists; our contractor and academic community base; and partners throughout the world, who have demonstrated amazing resiliency on the Webb mission through design, advancement, testing, launch, and now commissioning,” said Robinson. “We enjoyed an amazing moment when Webb introduced on Christmas Day– a gift to the world.
Robinson earned bachelors degrees in math from Virginia Union University and electrical engineering from Howard University, in a dual-degree program. He later on obtained a Master of Business Administration from Averett University and participated in Harvard Universitys Senior Executive Fellows Program at the Kennedy School of Government. He also attended the Federal Executive Institutes Leadership for a Democratic Society. Robinson has more than 30 years of program, engineering and project management, and senior executive management at NASA.
He teaches a graduate-level class in leading complex tasks at Columbia Universitys School of Professional Studies, and he previously taught the essentials of project management at the George Washington Universitys Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering.
In 1989, Robinson began his profession at NASA, where he dealt with several prominent missions. He held various management functions, working on numerous spaceflight and area shuttle objectives. As a seasoned executive, he worked as deputy center director at NASAs John H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and as NASA deputy chief engineer. He also acted as the acting National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service deputy assistant administrator at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Prior to leading Webb, Robinson was the deputy partner administrator for programs in NASAs Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters.
” Ive had an enriching career with fantastic coworkers, and I am so proud to be a part of this very first chapter in Webbs science story, with a team that has actually shown exemplary steadfastness after years of deal with the program,” stated Robinson. “Webb will start a substantial science journey, and to see that we are getting so close to unfolding the universe at long last is astonishing.”.
Fundamental astronomy questions moved Webbs complicated design. Webb will look for to answer olden concerns: How did the universe begin? How do galaxies form and progress? How do we fit in the universes?
After introducing on December 25, 2021, the Webb team withstood a harrowing multi-week spacecraft commissioning period where hundreds of parts integrated to work intricately in the extreme environment of area while on its journey to its last orbit one million miles from Earth. Webb is the first area telescope to use a big deployable primary mirror that consists of 18 segments and an unparalleled optical system.
More About the Mission.
The James Webb Space Telescope, the biggest and most complex science observatory ever constructed, is a worldwide program led by NASA with its partners, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. As the scientific successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, Webb will check out the secrets of deep space and reveal new discoveries to assist us understand our place in the universes.