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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the clean room at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 26, 2026. (Image credit: NASA\/Sydney Rohde (Rocz))<\/p>\n
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope<\/a> is hanging out in the clean room at the Kennedy Space Center<\/a> (KSC) in Florida, preparing for its epic journey to space.<\/p>\n What is it?<\/p>\n Roman is NASA’s next big flagship mission, designed to explore the universe<\/a> like we’ve never seen it before. And with just over a month and a half until its expected launch on Aug. 30, it is in the home stretch to liftoff.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After recently leaving NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center<\/a> in Maryland, where the telescope was assembled and tested, Roman made its way to KSC, from where it will launch. In this new photo,<\/a> snapped on June 26, we can see Roman seemingly floating in mid-air, hanging inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, a secure clean room at KSC where spacecraft are fueled, tested and otherwise prepared for flight. In this moment, technicians and engineers were using a crane to lift Roman into the air into a specialized stand, where the telescope can rest while it is worked on.<\/p>\n Roman \u2014 named for the pioneering astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, who served as NASA’s first chief of astronomy and expanded our understanding of the universe \u2014 is a mission that scientists have been waiting for for a long time.<\/p>\n With a field of view at least 100 times larger than the iconic Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>, Roman will be able to capture immense views across the universe. The mission will explore dark matter<\/a> and dark energy<\/a>, and with its tech demonstration the Roman Coronagraph Instrument, it will snap images of exoplanets, offering direct looks at worlds far from our solar system.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/media\/img\/spc-logo-w.svg\"){kind=logo}
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