Posted on 09/01/2026 2:04:34 PM PDT by Libloather
NASA's new flagship astronomical observatory was launched into space from Florida on August 30 on a mission to probe some of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics and cosmology. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a roughly $4 billion project, was carried aloft from NASA's Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The telescope is designed to investigate cosmic enigmas such as dark energy and dark matter, while also testing gravity at vast scales and searching for exoplanets. Roman will travel through space toward an orbital location called Lagrange Point 2, situated about a million miles (1.6 million km) from Earth. Its mission is planned for five years, though the U.S. space agency said the telescope may have enough fuel for five additional years.
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Thanks for that.
Too many misunderstood.
I have no idea what that means.
Do you think females should not be astronomers? or that her work wasn’t worthy of memorialization?
Are you an astronomer, and can you assess the value of her life’s work? Could you have done the work she did in developing the Hubble?
shut up stupid...
If you knew NASA the way I know NASA, you'd know that it is institutionally up to its ears in "DEI".
DEI policies call into question the merits of ANYBODY who might be seen as benefitting from them.
I Know who NGR was ... sure ... she's as worthy of a telescope as anybody ... without the taint of DEI policies.
the guy is a moron. he pics a piece of a debate and focuses on that and doesnt bother reading it all. He argues like a woman...
Here’s some more.
Sun–Earth L2 is a gravitationally balanced location about 1.5 million km directly behind Earth as viewed from the Sun, where the combined pull of Earth and Sun plus the outward centrifugal force cancel out, allowing spacecraft to “hover” with minimal fuel use. The James Webb Space Telescope and ESA’s Euclid and Gaia observatories operate from Sun–Earth L2 to obtain an unobstructed, stable view of deep space.
So we already have telescopes there.
Hope they don’t bang into each other. /s
I don’t think ‘DEI’ had anything to do with her tenure at NASA. She started there in 1959.
Thanks for the conversation.
Ah? Thank you. I never heard of her. But then, astronomy’s not my thing.
The only shameful ignorance is WILLFUL ignorance.
Shame on you.
Nancy Grace Roman was highly regarded as both an astronomer and as a NASA manager. She justly deserves the honor and recognition of having a major new space telescope named after her.
Never said it did. But the choice to name the telescope for her occurred at a time (the present, roughly) that NASA was and is up to its ears in DEI. Leadership there seems to feel that it must "atone" for NASA in the past being "too white" and "too masculine".
And this illustrates (in part) the core of why I absolutely DESPISE "diversity" policies. Their very existence casts a pall over the careers of people who might be seen in any way to have benefitted from them.
You can make decisions based on merit, or you can make decisions based on "diversity".
You cannot do both; to pretend otherwise is dishonest.
We wouldn't be having this conversation if NASA were today a clean meritocracy.
I think you’re arguing just to argue. You really didn’t know anything about her.
The telescope was named after her precisely BECAUSE she had earned the honor through merit.
Again, ‘thanks for the conversation’ means I don’t want to continue.
Thanks. From what I’ve read about her, that is the truth of it.
< shrug >
My view of NASA is more from the inside than from the outside.
It’s not a pretty sight.
LOL! Good one.
👍🙂🔭
When I first read the name of the telescope,
I didn’t understand why they would name
it after the TV lady.
So I had to look it up.
< shrug >
Your opinion of me is of no consequence.
Now THAT is an intelligent response……
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