I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't. Nancy Roman More Quotes by Nancy Roman More Quotes From Nancy Roman Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art. Nancy Roman problems science people art I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school. Nancy Roman end high-school college school In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Nancy Roman invitation guest soviet dedication I started out, as most astronomers do, with a university job. But in my generation, women weren't very welcome at universities, and so I found a job in the government. And the government was appreciably more welcoming. Nancy Roman job welcome women government I believe that there will be women astronauts sometime just as there are women airplane pilots. Nancy Roman will women airplane believe