Check out NASA’s new space telescope

Check out NASA’s new space telescope

Next week, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will be unveiling its newest space telescope: the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The Roman telescope was originally called the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) when NASA announced the project in February 2016. NASA said in May 2020 it was “naming its next-generation space telescope currently under development, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), in honor of Nancy Gra…

What Is the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope?

Nancy Grace Roman was NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, serving from 1959 to 1979, and is widely regarded as the "Mother of Hubble" for her role in making the Hubble Space Telescope a reality. NASA renamed the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) in her honour in 2020, a decision that reflected both her scientific legacy and a broader effort to recognize women who shaped the agency's history.