Roman Space Telescope Broadcast Isaacman Fly by 39A
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman leads a flight of his personally owned F-5 Tiger II aircraft on a flyby of Launch Complex 39A where a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the agency's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, encapsulated in a protective payload fairing, is undergoing final launch preparations, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems, and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. Liftoff from Kennedy is targeted for no earlier than 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30.
- Date
- 2026-08-29
- Photographer / author
- NASA/Clayton Rougelot
- Collection
- KSC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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