Son of sharecroppers, HBCU grad was the man who fixed NASA’s giant space telescope

Posted on July 12, 2022 by thegrio.com

Gregory Robinson was asked in 2018 to take over as director of a long-stalled NASA project that had cost nearly $8 billion; he saved it.

In 2018, Gregory Robinson was asked to take over as director of a long-stalled NASA project that had cost the space program nearly $8 billion with a launch date that had been delayed for a decade. And Robinson, a double HBCU grad, saved it.

Formerly NASA’s deputy associate administrator of programs — where he had assessed the performance of more than 100 science missions, according to today!

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