NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrives in Florida – Spaceflight Now
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, nestled inside its transport container nicknamed ‘the Chariot’, passes by the Vehicle Assembly Building on its way to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now NASA’s next great observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, arrived at the Kennedy Space Center aboard [...] The post NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrives in Florida – Spaceflight Now appeared first on News Pub . The post NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrives in Florida – Spaceflight Now appeared first on News Pub .
NASA’s next great observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, arrived at the Kennedy Space Center aboard the agency’s massive Pegasus barge late Sunday morning. The spacecraft was nestled inside its protective case, which NASA nicknamed the “Chariot” in keeping with the “Roman” theme. That said, telescope is named not for the ancient empire, but instead for NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy, Nancy Grace Roman. “She was a key person in our exploration of space. …
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