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Roman space telescope2/1/2024 I think I've always been curious, and I just wanted to satisfy my curiosity. I knew it was going to take me another 12 years of schooling, but I figured I'd try and if I didn't make it, I could teach physics or math in high school. And by seventh grade I’d decided I wanted to be an astronomer, and I was going to try for it. Between fifth and sixth grades, I organized my friends into an astronomy club to study the constellations. She said, “Well, I also took you out and showed you the birds and the trees and the flowers.” And I remember that - I remember her taking me out on long walks and showing me things, but they didn't stick - the astronomy did. I told her this a little while before she died, and she was shocked. I blamed my mother because she used to take me out and show me the constellations and the Northern Lights, things like that. I’ve been interested in it as long as I can remember. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center What first sparked your interest in space and science? After 1955, I lived in the Washington, DC, area. I lived there for five years before leaving for college (it was my longest home before college). In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, where I attended junior high and high school. I was born in Nashville, Tennessee, but I lived in a number of places. A decade later, she started working at NASA, where she became the first chief of astronomy in the Office of Space Science, and the first woman to hold an executive position at the space agency. Roman received her doctorate in astronomy from the University of Chicago in 1949. The woman who would become known as "the mother of Hubble” said she had decided by seventh grade to become an astronomer. It was those stars in the night sky that grabbed Nancy’s attention. Her mother also pointed out constellations. As a child, Nancy Roman’s mother took her on walks to show her flowers, birds and trees.
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