Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington, participates in a postlaunch news conference for the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope inside the NASA News Center’s John Holliman Auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems, and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. Liftoff of Roman atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket occurred at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
Photographer NASA/Cory S Huston
Album SpaceX_Roman_Space_Telescope
Location KSC Press Site Auditorium
Date August 30, 2026