Named for the woman who first charted NASA's astronomical course, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to leave Earth nine months ahead of schedule, carrying with it humanity's widest-ever eye on the cosmos. Launching August 30, 2026, from Kennedy Space Center, the observatory will survey the sky with a field of view one hundred times broader than Hubble's, transforming narrow glimpses into sweeping panoramas of the universe. In its search for distant worlds and the conditions that might sustain life, Roman embodies the enduring human impulse to look outward — and to ask whether we are