In the early hours of a Sunday morning at Kennedy Space Center, humanity extended its gaze a million miles deeper into the unknown, launching the Roman Space Telescope aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket on a three-month journey toward the gravitational stillness of Lagrange Point 2. Named for Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first chief astronomer, the $4.3 billion observatory carries instruments designed to illuminate the universe's two greatest mysteries — the dark matter that holds galaxies together and the dark energy that drives them apart. In mapping billions of stars, galaxies, and worlds beyond our