Gregory Robinson’s Mastery of the Balance Between Science and Art

Changing the Trajectory

Sometimes it is rocket science. In 2018, decades into his 33-year career at NASA, Gregory Robinson was asked to lead the James Webb Space Telescope Program to get it over the goal line. Gregory's rise from sharecropper parents in Virginia to segregated schooling in the 1960s to becoming the Webb Space Telescope's program director and the 2022 Time Innovator of the Year is an achievement—one whose impact rivals the scientific marvel that is Webb itself.

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