On the morning of August 30th, a Falcon Heavy rocket will carry the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope away from Earth and toward a station nearly a million miles into the dark, where it will spend years asking the oldest questions humanity has aimed at the sky: how vast is the universe, what force drives its expansion, and how many other worlds exist beyond our own. Named for a pioneering astronomer who helped make space science possible, the telescope inherits the legacies of Hubble and James Webb while reaching further still — into regions of space and time that have remained, until now, bey