Webb and Truman
NASA Administrator James Webb (right) with former President Harry Truman outside NASA Headquarters in 1961. A NASA historical review found no evidence Webb was involved in discriminatory actions against LGBTQ employees at NASA or the State Department.

A new NASA policy makes it unlikely future missions will be named after individuals in response to the controversy surrounding the naming of the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...