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Roman Space Telescope SD Card Abrading and Bonding
Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Harry Willems, a mechanical technician from the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, installs a memory card containing a total of 1,350,144 names as part of a commem...
- Date
- Aug 21, 2026
- Mission
- Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- KSC-20260717-PH-JMT01_0005
Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Harry Willems, a mechanical technician from the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, installs a memory card containing a total of 1,350,144 names as part of a commemorative plaque on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Friday, July 17, 2026. The names, submitted by people from across the globe, including astronauts from NASA’s Artemis II and Artemis III missions, will travel with the Roman observatory to the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, or L2, about one million miles from Earth, where the Sun’s and Earth’s gravity balance out. Roman is named after Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer and one of the architects of the agency’s modern science program.
Image Details
| Date | 2026-07-17 |
| Photographer | NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya |
| Center | KSC |
| Location | PHSF |
| NASA ID | KSC-20260717-PH-JMT01_0005 |
