Oh they have far more to lose their shit over when it comes to Dr. Rigby:

Rigby was a founding member of the American Astronomical Society Committee for Sexual-Orientation and Gender Minorities in Astronomy.[12] In 2015 she co-organised Inclusive Astronomy, a worldwide initiative to celebrate inclusivity and equity in astronomy.[13][14]

And:

Rigby came out as lesbian in 2000.[2] When she joined the University of Arizona as a graduate student, it was still against state law to be gay.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Rigby_(astrophysicist)

Not sure if she's the first out lesbian to get the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but it wouldn't shock me.

Edit: Never mind. Billie Jean King got one from Obama and there might be women other than her, I just saw her name when I was scanning.

Ignore my previous post. They won't even notice because he also gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Nancy Pelosi in the same ceremony.

... and over the fact that article mentions the universe being billions of years old, which we know to be false because some old book says so, supposedly, not that any of them have read that book. Ban all Webb data, keep that stuff out of our libraries and schools!

Yeah the JWST will go down as one of the most important pieces of scientific hardware ever created. She and all the NASA/ESA/CSA scientists who created it deserve all the medals. IIRC it was ESA's most viewed launch to date, I sure remember stressing tf out haha.

I imagine there might be one at some point, just not this one.

It certainly would be more suitable to name it after a gay woman than Webb, who may or may not have been a homophobe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Webb#Controversy_about_telescope_name