Dr. Julie McEnery, Senior Project Scientist for NASA's Nancy Gr

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.