On a Sunday morning in late summer, humanity will extend its gaze a little further into the cosmos as NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. Named for the woman who helped make Hubble possible, Roman carries forward a lineage of curiosity — built not to look deeply at one point in the sky, but to sweep across billions of galaxies and stars, mapping the universe's vast architecture. That it arrives eight months early and under budget is itself a quiet testament to what patient, disciplined human effort can accomplish at the fro