NASA's New Roman Telescope Nears Launch With Billions Of Galaxies In Sight

NASA is deploying another high-end telescope to peer into the far reaches of space, and after two decades of development, a launch is now only weeks away. After passing a series of tests, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, as it's called, made its way to the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin final prelaunch preparations for a summer launch.

A telescope of this magnitude is not something you can just load in the back of a pickup truck and haul down the road. It weighs nearly 18,000 pounds (8,200 kilograms) and booked a trip on NASA's Pegasus barge to make its way down the coast of the Atlantic Ocean en route to its forever home in Florida.

The next step is to perform extensive cleaning to remove the bulk of contaminants introduced during transport, after which it will be brought inside NASA's facility for a full...

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