[Red Badger]

From WIKI:

In keeping with NASA tradition, the telescope was renamed after successful demonstration of operation, on December 18, 2003. Unlike most telescopes which are named after famous deceased astronomers by a board of scientists, the name for SIRTF was obtained from a contest open to the general public.

The contest led to the telescope being named in honor of Lyman Spitzer, one of the 20th century’s great scientists

[Paladin2]

".....and was a member of Skull and Bones."

Hmmm...