On Sunday morning, humanity will extend its eyes a little further into the cosmos as the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, bound for a station one million miles from Earth. Named for NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, the observatory carries with it more than a decade of engineering ambition and a $4.3 billion investment in our oldest questions — what else is out there, and what is the universe made of. Roman's unprecedented wide-field vision and planet-imaging coronagraph represent not merely a new instrument, but a new way of as