NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Postlaunch News Conference - 1080p

NASA and industry leaders 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. Participants include NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman; Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington; Jackie Townsend, Roman telescope project manager, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; Denton Gibson, launch director, NASA’s Launch Services Program, NASA Kennedy; Julianna Scheiman, director, NASA Science and Dragon Programs, SpaceX; and Justin McReynolds, launch weather officer, 45th Weather Squadron, U.S. Space Force. 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.