NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrived at Kennedy Space Center on Sunday and is being prepared for launch. The mission is now scheduled to lift off no earlier than Aug. 30, eight months ahead of its original target.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a $4.3 billion dollar observatory that will hunt for planets and dark energy, arrived to Kennedy Space Center on Sunday.

NASA’s next flagship space observatory has officially arrived in Florida, bringing one of the agency’s most ambitious astronomy missions closer to launch. According to NASA, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope reached Kennedy Space Center on June 21,

NASA’s infrastructure at Kennedy Space Center, the crown jewel of US spaceports, is aging and approaching its limit due to increased demand from private companies, including SpaceX and Blue Origin, a new report finds.