The NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal winner Nancy Roman was an American astronomer who was born on May 16 1925 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. She made her important contribution to stellar classification and motions and became the first female executive at NASA. She also served as NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy throughout the 1960s and 1970s, establishing her as one of the "visionary founders of the US civilian space program". She is known to many as the "Mother of Hubble" for her foundational role in planning the Hubble Space Telescope.
1. The famous astronomer Nancy Roman dwell from which country?
A. America
B. Argentina
C. California
D. Germany
2. Roman was also an active public speaker and educator, and an advocate for women in..
A. Cosmology
B. Theoretical science
C. Sciences
D. Astronomy
3. Roman developed Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2, which was launched in..
A. December 1968
B. November 1967
C. October 1968
D. December 196
4. Nancy’s Hubble Telescope was launched by NASA in which year?
A. 1998
B. 1990
C. 1997
D. 1995
5. “Fundamental observations of the structure of the galaxy provided the first clue to its formation and laid the foundation for later work”; her paper was selected as one of the hundred most important papers in hundred years by the ...
A. Advances in Space Research
B. Astrophysics and space science
C. International general of astrobiology
D. Astrophysical journal
6. Nancy Roman received Federal Woman's Award in the year...
A. 1976
B. 1987
C. 1962
D. 1970
7. Nancy received NASA Outstanding Scientific Leadership Award in the year...
A. 1970
B. 1978
C. 1975
D. 1979
8. Nancy received a lifetime achievement award – Women in Aerospace in the year...
A. 2004
B. 2011
C. 2010
D. 2012
9. The asteroid ______ is named in her honor of Nancy Roman.
A. 2516 Roman
B. 4 vesta
C. 2412 Roman
D. Ceres
10. Roman received Woman of Distinction from the American Association of University Women, Maryland in the year...
A. 2015
B. 2016
C. 2017
D. 2018
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