{"id":331086,"date":"2026-07-06T20:32:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331086\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T20:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:32:28","slug":"send-your-name-to-space-on-the-nancy-grace-roman-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331086\/","title":{"rendered":"Send your name to space on the Nancy Grace Roman telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NATIONWIDE \u2014As NASA is preparing to launch the Nancy Grace Roman telescope into a far orbit, your name can go into space too.<\/p>\n<p>NASA, with the help of SpaceX\u2019s Falcon Heavy rocket, plans to launch the telescope from the Kennedy Space Center\u2019s Launch Complex 39A on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Nancy Grace Roman telescope will have a new home at the Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2), just a mere 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from good, old Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExplore the universe with us! The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA\u2019s next space observatory, launching to a point in space ONE MILLION MILES away,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/my.nasa.gov\/specialevents\/s\/send-your-name-with-nancy-roman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the U.S. space agency stated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>People have to go to <a href=\"https:\/\/my.nasa.gov\/specialevents\/s\/send-your-name-with-nancy-roman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">this NASA website<\/a> and submit their name and email. The submitted names are placed on an SD card attached to the telescope.<\/p>\n<p>This was done during the <a href=\"https:\/\/mynews13.com\/fl\/orlando\/space\/2026\/03\/25\/artemis-ii-send-your-name-to-the-moon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Artemis II moon mission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope\u2019s job is to focus on dark energy and dark matter and search for exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NATIONWIDE \u2014As NASA is preparing to launch the Nancy Grace Roman telescope into a far orbit, your name&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[12109,54160,12111,26539,274,315,2200,2204,26538,115,139,141,140,554,1769,135,1576,278,2032],"class_list":["post-331086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","tag-anthony-leone","tag-app-for-your-consideration","tag-app-space","tag-app-top-stories","tag-brevard-county","tag-instagram-bn9","tag-instagram-n13","tag-new-space-race","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-science","tag-space","tag-tampa","tag-technology","tag-top-stories","tag-trending-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}