High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert (Bob) Fosbury is an astronomer working for the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of ESA`s collaboration with NASA on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) project at ST-ECF. Based at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) near Munich in Germany, Fosbury joined this initiative in 1985, more than 5 years before launch. During the latter part of this period, Bob served on NASA`s Ad Hoc Science Working Group and ESA`s Study Science Team as they developed the instrument concepts for the James Webb Space Telescope, the next generation space observatory.