You are probably thinking of 'spyglass'.
Before being named after astronomer Edwin Hubble, HST was known during development as the Large Orbiting Telescope, or Large Space Telescope. This is not uncommon for NASA; the current successor to HST, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), was originally named NGST - Next Generation Space Telescope, a nod to Star Trek.
The Hubble Telescope was named after its designer Edwin Hubble.
The Hubble Space Telescope was named after Edwin Hubble.
The telescope named Hubble
It was named after Edwin Hubble.
it was originally named Roma
You name the astronomer, and I'll identify the telescope. Whoever it is, I suspect the telescope has the same name.
Willamsburg was originally named Middle plantations.
It is named after Edwin P. Hubble (1889 - 1953).
The Hubble space telescope was named after Edwin Hubble (20.November 1889-28 September 1953).
The Hubble Space Telescope was named after Edwin Hubble. He was not an astronaut. Edwin Hubble was an astronomer, not an astronaut, who discovered the expansion of the universe.
He didn't. Edwin Hubble died in 1953. The telescope was named in honour of him.