Trump Congratulates NASA After Roman Telescope Launches on 1 Million-Mile Journey
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Updated · Fox News · Aug 30
Trump Congratulates NASA After Roman Telescope Launches on 1 Million-Mile Journey
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 30
Summary
Trump unexpectedly called into a NASA press conference Sunday after the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched at 7:26 a.m. EDT, congratulating the agency and jokingly asking whether there was “anything negative” to know.
NASA said the telescope launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center, separated successfully from the rocket and began sending telemetry as it headed into space.
Jared Isaacman, NASA’s administrator, said Roman will travel nearly 1 million miles to the L2 Lagrange point over the next several months before starting to send back imagery and data.
Isaacman said the mission could become a household name alongside Hubble and James Webb, framing Roman as NASA’s next major space observatory with potentially “world-changing” science.