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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Post Launch Press Conference
From left, George Alderman, NASA Deputy Press Secretary; NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman; Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington; Jackie Townsend, Roman telescope project manager, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Gr...
- Date
- Aug 30, 2026
- Mission
- Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- KSC-20260830-PH-CSH01-0038
From left, George Alderman, NASA Deputy Press Secretary; NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman; Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington; Jackie Townsend, Roman telescope project manager, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; Julie McEnery, Roman telescope senior project scientist, NASA Goddard; and Denton Gibson, launch director, NASA’s Launch Services Program, Kennedy Space Center in Florida, participate in a postlaunch news conference for NASA’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-CSH01-0038 |
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