NASA Roman telescope arrives in Florida for August launch target (opens in new tab)

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 21 aboard the agency’s Pegasus barge, beginning final launch preparations for one of NASA’s next-generation space observatories. Before the trip, the spacecraft completed integration and testing at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, then traveled in a protective, environmentally controlled transport container to Baltimore and down the Atlantic coast to Florida. Technicians moved the 43-foo...