On the morning of August 30th, 2026, humanity will send another instrument of inquiry into the dark — a telescope named for the woman who first charted NASA's astronomical course, now tasked with charting the cosmos itself. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, lifting off from Kennedy Space Center aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket, carries with it the accumulated ambition of a generation of astronomers who have long sought to understand what the universe is made of and how it came to be. Settling a million miles from Earth at a gravitational point of stillness, Roman will turn its wide infrared e