Telescope named for the second administrator of NASA (4)

I believe the answer is:

webb

(Other definitions for webb that I've seen before include "Socialist family" , "English Channel swimmer" , "Cross-Channel swimmer" , "Family admiring Stalin" , "First man to swim the English Channel" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.

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