American astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer created the concept at Princeton in the 1950s. Like solar and wind power, fusion ...

As was customary at the time, NASA didn’t officially change the spacecraft’s name to the Spitzer Space Telescope until it was ready to begin observations. It was named after Dr. Lyman Spitzer ...

Lyman Spitzer, the American astrophysicist for whom the telescope is named, pointed out the advantages of space telescopes back in 1946. Since then, instruments such as the legendary Hubble Space ...