Meet Dr. Nancy Grace Roman

You have to be a pretty big deal for NASA to name a space telescope after you, and that is certainly the case for Dr. Nancy Grace Roman — our Roman Space Telescope’s namesake. She’s sometimes called the “mother of Hubble,” but she’s really the mother of all space-based observatories and NASA science in general. As NASA’s first chief astronomer, Dr. Roman's vision and leadership supercharged space science and helped make NASA the world-class scientific institution it is today.

Technicians have completed the construction of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

The mission will revolutionize our understanding of the universe with its deep, crisp, sweeping views of space: https://go.nasa.gov/4rZZnYg

A Big Picture

I don't know how I've already finished a mass attack, but here we are! I haven't drawn this much in forever.

To celebrate the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launching this August, I did a mass attack on a bunch of gijinkas/personifications of Roman. I love the spacecraft and 17776 community, including those whose characters I haven’t drawn. You all are awesome! Thank you Lizardzap for the spacecraft OC masterlist.

Character credits:

@nekom-art | @starstruck-dramaticisms | @robinwaaaaa | @/ghostingbrightly

@regromanova | @astronerdie | @stellar-revolution | @drakkoholic

@infectedscreen | @lizardzap | @s00k00b1m | @/snowdragon

hiiii romannnnn hi roman hiii roman !!

SPACEFLIGHT DAILY - 13th & 14th June 2026

CAS Space launches eight satellites on the fourteenth flight of its Kinetica-1 rocket, and NASA ships the Nancy Roman Space Telescope from Baltimore to the Kennedy Space Center ready for launch at the end of August.

View on YouTube.

Roman Space Telescope is proposed to be cancelled by the recent White House NASA budget proposal for 2026

Now this is a telescope! A very expensive telescope but worth it!