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'''James Edwin Webb''' (October 7, 1906 – March 27, 1992) was an American government official who served as Undersecretary of State from 1949–1952. He was also the second [[NASA#Leadership|appointed administrator]] of [[NASA]] from February 14, 1961, to October 7, 1968. Webb oversaw NASA from the beginning of the [[Presidency of John F. Kennedy|Kennedy administration]] through the end of the [[Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson administration]], thus overseeing each of the critical first crewed missions throughout the [[Project Mercury|Mercury]] and [[Project Gemini|Gemini]] programs until days before the launch of the first Apollo mission. He also dealt with the [[Apollo 1 fire]].
In 2002, the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) was renamed the [[James Webb Space Telescope]] as a tribute to Webb. In March 2021, a commentary in ''[[Scientific American]]'' urged NASA to rename the telescope due to Webb's efforts while a NASA administrator, disclosed in 2015, to implement governmental policies in place at the time to purge LGBTQ individuals from the federal workforce.<ref name="SA-20210301">{{cite news |last1=Prescod-Weinstein |first1=Chanda |last2=Tuttle |first2=Sarah |last3=Walkowicz |first3=Lucianne |last4=Nord |first4=Brian |title=NASA Needs to Rename the James Webb Space Telescope - The successor to the Hubble honors a man who took part in the effort to purge LGBT people from the federal workforce |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-needs-to-rename-the-james-webb-space-telescope/ |date=March 1, 2021 |work=[[Scientific American]] |accessdate=March 3, 2021 }}</ref>
==Early and personal life==
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