The society added: "His historical reputation is however compromised by evidence that he took part in purges of gay men from the federal workforce in the 1940s and 1950s in the so-called Lavender Scare.
The space agency did however acknowledged the federal government had "shamefully promoted" discrimination against gay employees at the time, concluding there was no available evidence to "directly link" Webb to such accusations.
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