Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Post Launch Press Conference

From left, George Alderman, NASA Deputy Press Secretary, and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman participate in a postlaunch news conference for NASA’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.