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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Post Launch Press Conference
Jackie Townsend, Roman telescope project manager, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, participates in a postlaunch news conference for the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope inside the NASA News Center’s John Holliman Auditorium at Kennedy Space Cen...
- Date
- Aug 30, 2026
- Mission
- Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- KSC-20260830-PH-CSH01-0012
Jackie Townsend, Roman telescope project manager, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, participates in a postlaunch news conference for the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope inside the NASA News Center’s John Holliman Auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems, and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. Liftoff of Roman atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket occurred at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A
Image Details
| Date | 2026-08-30 |
| Photographer | NASA/Cory S Huston |
| Center | KSC |
| Location | KSC Press Site Auditorium |
| NASA ID | KSC-20260830-PH-CSH01-0012 |
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