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Roman Has Arrived at the Launch Site!

A wide shot of an enormous gray and white canister sitting on a barge in the water. At the left, a large building has a huge opening like a vertical rectangular slot. On the front of this building there’s a large NASA “meatball” logo and an American flag. Credit: NASA/Sydney RohdeALT

On Sunday, June 21, NASA’s Pegasus barge arrived at the Launch Complex 39 turn basin at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

Our next major space telescope has arrived at the launch site! On Sunday, June 21, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope completed its voyage from our Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland down to our Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Now, the observatory will undergo final preparations before liftoff on Sunday, Aug. 30.

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Applications for the Roman NASA Social Are Now Open!

Railroad tracks in the foreground twist around to a rocket launch in the distance. A torpedo-shaped object releases a blindingly bright, cone-shaped emission from its bottom end. Clouds of smoke billow out across the surrounding grounds. Credit: NASA/Bill IngallsALT

In this photo, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is blasting off to space on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana. On Aug. 30, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch from our Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

Calling all digital creators! Ever wanted to see a rocket launch up close? Here’s your chance! Social storytellers are invited to apply to attend the NASA social for the launch of our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. This flagship mission will explore the universe’s dark side, discover troves of strange new worlds, and much more.

Participants will:

  • Tour NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
  • Learn directly from astrophysics subject matter experts
  • Meet fellow digital creators and social media users
  • Spend time with members of NASA’s social media team
  • View the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Interested? The clock’s ticking! Applications close June 28 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Learn more about how to apply.

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Send Your Name to Space with Roman!

A woman wearing glasses, blue gloves, and a white mask and head covering is seen from the waist up affixing a large rectangular boarding pass to a wall. The boarding pass Says Roman Telescope in the middle and has an image of a spacecraft at the right. At the left, there’s a shape made up of three rows of six squares, slightly arched like a rainbow. Beneath this is a QR code. Credit: NASA/Courtney LeeALT

Send your name to fly on Roman and download a boarding pass like this one with your name on it!

What’s the farthest you’ve ever traveled from home? Want to beat your record by about a million miles? Submit to have your name added to a memory card that will be attached to a plaque on our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope traveling a million miles away!

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Meet Our Dino-Sized Telescope!

An illustration of a T. rex facing left is at the top of this graphic. Below it is an illustrated model of the Roman observatory, showing that they’re about the same length. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image LabALT

This illustration shows the relative scale of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and a Tyrannosaurus rex. Roman is over 42 feet (12.7 meters) long — about the length of a T. rex — and over 14 feet (4.4 meters) wide when fully deployed. Roman also weighs around 18,000 pounds, or 8,000 kilograms (dry mass), which is the approximate mass of a T. rex as well.

Did you know NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is both roughly as long and as massive as a Tyrannosaurus rex? This observatory, which will move to the launch site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida very soon, is over 42 feet (12.7 meters) long and weighs around 18,000 pounds (8,000 kilograms), not including the fuel. Let’s explore some of the components that bring Roman to T. rex proportions.

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