As the new space race ramps up and humanity looks to deep space and potentially life as an interstellar species, the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is preparing to launch a new high-powered lens into the void of deep space called the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

NASA hopes to use the new telescope to further investigate the phenomenon of dark matter and dark energy that are crucial to understanding the universe’s evolution.

The Roman mission is named after Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, the first female executive at NASA who also served as the organization’s first Chief of Astronomy.

“In the late ‘60s, we started flying telescopes into space, and she was the person who made this happen,” Dr. Dominic Benford, Program Scientist for the Nancy Grace Roman mission, told Decrypt. “So she’s colloquially called the ‘Mother of Hubble,’ because the last big project she s

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