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NASA’s powerful new Nancy Grace Roman Telescope begins cosmic mission
NY Post ^ | 9/01/26

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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TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: cosmic; mission; nasa; space; telescope
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To: missthethunder

Thanks for that.
Too many misunderstood.


41 posted on 09/01/2026 5:27:02 PM PDT by Kiss7
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To: NorthMountain

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?


42 posted on 09/01/2026 5:27:48 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: NorthMountain

shut up stupid...


43 posted on 09/01/2026 5:29:28 PM PDT by sit-rep (I may be Dumb, but I'm not Stupid!)
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To: Jamestown1630
I have no idea what that means.

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.

44 posted on 09/01/2026 5:31:54 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Jamestown1630

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...


45 posted on 09/01/2026 5:31:57 PM PDT by sit-rep (I may be Dumb, but I'm not Stupid!)
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To: Kiss7

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


46 posted on 09/01/2026 5:35:51 PM PDT by missthethunder (Since the 1980 Rona Barrett interview. IYKYK. )
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To: NorthMountain

I don’t think ‘DEI’ had anything to do with her tenure at NASA. She started there in 1959.

Thanks for the conversation.


47 posted on 09/01/2026 5:36:15 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: missthethunder

Ah? Thank you. I never heard of her. But then, astronomy’s not my thing.


48 posted on 09/01/2026 5:46:19 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: sit-rep

The only shameful ignorance is WILLFUL ignorance.

Shame on you.


49 posted on 09/01/2026 6:03:23 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Jamestown1630

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.


50 posted on 09/01/2026 6:07:26 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Jamestown1630
I don’t think ‘DEI’ had anything to do with her tenure at NASA.

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.

51 posted on 09/01/2026 6:09:19 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

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.


52 posted on 09/01/2026 6:13:50 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Rockingham

Thanks. From what I’ve read about her, that is the truth of it.


53 posted on 09/01/2026 6:15:01 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

< shrug >

My view of NASA is more from the inside than from the outside.

It’s not a pretty sight.


54 posted on 09/01/2026 6:16:42 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

LOL! Good one.


55 posted on 09/01/2026 6:19:35 PM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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To: Jamestown1630

👍🙂🔭


56 posted on 09/01/2026 6:21:14 PM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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To: Flaming Conservative

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.


57 posted on 09/01/2026 6:21:51 PM PDT by missthethunder (Since the 1980 Rona Barrett interview. IYKYK. )
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To: NorthMountain
You strike me as a poseur.
58 posted on 09/01/2026 6:34:10 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

< shrug >

Your opinion of me is of no consequence.


59 posted on 09/01/2026 6:37:04 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: sit-rep
shut up stupid...

Now THAT is an intelligent response……

60 posted on 09/01/2026 6:37:59 PM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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