Webb did attend a White House meeting on the threat allegedly posed by gay people, but the context of the meeting was to contain the hysteria that members of Congress were stirring up. There is no record of him choosing to stand up for the humanity of those being persecuted.ĭavid Johnson, a historian at the University of South Florida in Tampa who wrote the 2004 book The Lavender Scare, says he knows of no evidence that Webb led or instigated persecution.
The records clearly show that Webb planned and participated in meetings during which he handed over homophobic material. In a Scientific American article last year, authors led by cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein wrote: Several astronomers petitioning to have the telescope renamed have noted Webb (while at the State Department) was involved in high-level meetings about Lavender Scare policies. Webb’s exact role in the Lavender Scare is hotly debated. From the late 1940s, under the influence of Republican politician Joseph McCarthy, LGBTQ+ people were purged from US government employment. Proponents of these ideas argued that because of the social stigma attached to their sexuality, LGBTQ+ people were at risk of being blackmailed into becoming Soviet spies. The “ Lavender Scare” was entwined with this paranoia. What was the 'Lavender Scare’?ĭuring the Cold War, Western capitalist democracies feared communist infiltration. In later life, he served on various advisory boards and was involved with the Smithsonian Institution, the US flagship cluster of museums, education and research centres. Webb left NASA in 1968, before Apollo 11 flew to the Moon. He also promoted “ psychological warfare” (or propaganda). Webb pushed for science to be prioritised in the Cold War environment, where every space mission was a political tool. This collection is priced between $150 to $5050 and will be available for purchase at select Balenciaga stores and online.From L to R: James Webb, Wernher von Braun, and Kurt Debus at a Kennedy Space Centre award ceremony in 1964.
The collection also includes funky accessories such as cyberpunk metal sunglasses in blue aluminum, baseball caps with sewn space patches on the front and sides, engraved hook keyrings, NASA logo socks, and silk logo scarves. Pieces that stand out in the interstellar collection are a large Space backpack, ripstop Space Parka resembling a spacesuit, and a silver Chevalier 110MM Bootie. The collection, set in 2031 and inspired by space travel tools features NASA logos from “disparate eras suggesting retro astronaut wear from a time before mass space travel, repurposed into futuristic outwear.” NASA is quite the hot commodity in pop culture and this latest offering taps the pop-culture favorite by revamping traditional astronaut wear in the form of jackets, graphic tees, bags, and even socks with the NASA logo. This time Balenciaga has churned out some NASA-marked wares that were first spotted in the luxury brand’s utopian video game Afterworld: Age of Tomorrow built to showcase its Fall 2021 collection. NASA is so concerned about the clothes of their many astronauts they actually partnered with Tide to make space-friendly cleaning solutions. The world of fashion has always looked beyond the atmosphere at the International Space Station for inspiration and nearly always came out a winner. NASA does more collaborations with Earthlings than you can think of.
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