In four days, humanity will extend its gaze deeper into the unknown. On August 30, 2026, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will depart Kennedy Space Center aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket, bound for a gravitational equilibrium point one million miles from Earth. Named for NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, Roman carries the weight of decades of unanswered questions — about dark energy, dark matter, and the countless worlds that may orbit distant stars. It is, in the oldest sense, a lantern held up to the dark.