NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman spoke with Spaceflight Now's Will Robinson-Smith just hours after the launch of the agency's newest orbiting observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on August 30, 2026.
The $4.3 billion mission is expected to open a new window on the cosmos, shedding new light on the nature of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, revealing potentially habitable new planets, and drawing a new atlas of the Universe with wide-field views.
Videography by John Pisani.
Thumbnail photography:
Jared Isaacman: Michael Cain.
Falcon Heavy: NASA/Joel Kowsky
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