Dr. Julie McEnery, senior project scientist for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, discusses the upcoming Roman mission in the Training Auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, July 21, 2026. McEnery is a leading astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where she specializes in the study of high energy astrophysics and her work is expanding our understanding of the universe’s creation and behavior. Named for NASA’s first chief astronomer and “mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,” Roman will offer a field of view over 100 times larger than Hubble’s to study up to a billion galaxies, directly image exoplanets and planet forming disks, and address fundamental questions about dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.

Dr. Julie McEnery, senior project scientist for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, discusses the upcoming Roman mission in the Training Auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, July 21, 2026. McEnery is a leading astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where she specializes in the study of high energy astrophysics and her work is expanding our understanding of the universe’s creation and behavior. Named for NASA’s first chief astronomer and “mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,” Roman will offer a field of view over 100 times larger than Hubble’s to study up to a billion galaxies, directly image exoplanets and planet forming disks, and address fundamental questions about dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.

Dr. Julie McEnery, senior project scientist for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, discusses the upcoming Roman mission in the Training Auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, July 21, 2026. McEnery is a leading astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where she specializes in the study of high energy astrophysics and her work is expanding our understanding of the universe’s creation and behavior. Named for NASA’s first chief astronomer and “mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,” Roman will offer a field of view over 100 times larger than Hubble’s to study up to a billion galaxies, directly image exoplanets and planet forming disks, and address fundamental questions about dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.

Dr. Julie McEnery, senior project scientist for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, discusses the upcoming Roman mission in the Training Auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, July 21, 2026. McEnery is a leading astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where she specializes in the study of high energy astrophysics and her work is expanding our understanding of the universe’s creation and behavior. Named for NASA’s first chief astronomer and “mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,” Roman will offer a field of view over 100 times larger than Hubble’s to study up to a billion galaxies, directly image exoplanets and planet forming disks, and address fundamental questions about dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.

Denton Gibson, launch director of the Launch Services Program, introduces Dr. Julie McEnery, senior project scientist for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, in the Training Auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, July 21, 2026. McEnery is a leading astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where she specializes in the study of high energy astrophysics and her work is expanding our understanding of the universe’s creation and behavior. Named for NASA’s first chief astronomer and “mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,” Roman will offer a field of view over 100 times larger than Hubble’s to study up to a billion galaxies, directly image exoplanets and planet forming disks, and address fundamental questions about dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.

Dr. Julie McEnery, senior project scientist for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, discusses the upcoming Roman mission in the Training Auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, July 21, 2026. McEnery is a leading astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where she specializes in the study of high energy astrophysics and her work is expanding our understanding of the universe’s creation and behavior. Named for NASA’s first chief astronomer and “mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,” Roman will offer a field of view over 100 times larger than Hubble’s to study up to a billion galaxies, directly image exoplanets and planet forming disks, and address fundamental questions about dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.

Dr. Julie McEnery, senior project scientist for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, discusses the upcoming Roman mission in the Training Auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, July 21, 2026. McEnery is a leading astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where she specializes in the study of high energy astrophysics and her work is expanding our understanding of the universe’s creation and behavior. Named for NASA’s first chief astronomer and “mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,” Roman will offer a field of view over 100 times larger than Hubble’s to study up to a billion galaxies, directly image exoplanets and planet forming disks, and address fundamental questions about dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.

Dr. Julie McEnery, senior project scientist for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, discusses the upcoming Roman mission in the Training Auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, July 21, 2026. McEnery is a leading astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where she specializes in the study of high energy astrophysics and her work is expanding our understanding of the universe’s creation and behavior. Named for NASA’s first chief astronomer and “mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,” Roman will offer a field of view over 100 times larger than Hubble’s to study up to a billion galaxies, directly image exoplanets and planet forming disks, and address fundamental questions about dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.

Dr. Julie McEnery, senior project scientist on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, right, briefs Vice President Kamala Harris, President Yoon Suk Yeol of the Republic of Korea and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the observation area of the high bay clean room, Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Vice President Kamala Harris, right, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, and President Yoon Suk Yeol of the Republic of Korea are seen during a briefing by Dr. Julie McEnery, senior project scientist on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the observation area of the high bay clean room, Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy are see during a briefing on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope by Dr. Julie McEnery, senior project scientist on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, in the observation area of the high bay clean room, Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Dr. Julie McEnery, senior project scientist on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, left, briefs Vice President Kamala Harris, President Yoon Suk Yeol of the Republic of Korea and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the observation area of the high bay clean room, Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Dr. Julie McEnery, senior project scientist on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, right, briefs Vice President Kamala Harris, President Yoon Suk Yeol of the Republic of Korea and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the observation area of the high bay clean room, Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)