Nell Greenfield Boyce

NASA officials announced the launch plan at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

There, in a giant clean room, was the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

which is named after NASA's first chief of astronomy.

The approximately $4 billion telescope has a primary mirror as big as the one in the Hubble Space Telescope, but it has a much wider field of view than Hubble and will be able to survey the sky up to 1,000 times faster.

Nikki Fox is the head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

It should also help astronomers understand mysteries like dark energy and dark matter.

Nell Greenfield-Boyce, NPR News.

NASA officials announced the launch plan at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

There, in a giant clean room, was the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

which is named after NASA's first chief of astronomy.

The approximately $4 billion telescope has a primary mirror as big as the one in the Hubble Space Telescope, but it has a much wider field of view than Hubble and will be able to survey the sky up to 1,000 times faster.

Nikki Fox is the head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

It should also help astronomers understand mysteries like dark energy and dark matter.

Nell Greenfield-Boyce, NPR News.

NASA officials announced the launch plan at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

There, in a giant clean room, was the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

which is named after NASA's first chief of astronomy.

The approximately $4 billion telescope has a primary mirror as big as the one in the Hubble Space Telescope, but it has a much wider field of view than Hubble and will be able to survey the sky up to 1,000 times faster.

Nikki Fox is the head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

It should also help astronomers understand mysteries like dark energy and dark matter.