On the same launch pad that once carried humans toward the moon, humanity prepares to send another kind of explorer into the dark — this time, not to plant a flag, but to ask the deepest questions the cosmos holds. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, having cleared its final pre-flight review on August 28, 2026, is set to depart Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy on the morning of August 30, bound for a gravitational waypoint nearly a million miles from Earth. There, suspended between the pull of the sun and the quiet of deep space, it will spend years searching for distan