This weekend, a SpaceX rocket will carry the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope into orbit from Kennedy Space Center, inaugurating a new era of cosmic observation built on one woman's lifelong insistence that humanity could see the universe more clearly from beyond the atmosphere. The telescope, designed to survey vast swaths of sky in search of exoplanets and the elusive signature of dark energy, bears the name of the astronomer who overcame institutional sexism to become NASA's first chief of astronomy and the quiet architect of the Hubble Space Telescope program. Roman died in 2018 without s