Over a Million Names Will Virtually Fly on America's Next Great Observatory!

Friday, July 17, 2026

Over a Million Names Will Virtually Fly on America's Next Great Observatory!

Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a memory card carrying the names of 1,350,144 people is attached to a commemorative plaque that will be installed on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

NASA / Jolearra Tshiteya

Roman Space Telescope SD Card Abrading and Bonding (Photo Release)

A technician inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida installs a memory card containing a total of 1,350,144 names as part of a commemorative plaque on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Friday, July 17, 2026.

The names, submitted by people from across the globe, including astronauts from NASA’s Artemis II and Artemis III missions, will travel with the Roman observatory to the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, or L2, about one million miles from Earth, where the Sun’s and Earth’s gravity balance out.

Roman is named after Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer and one of the architects of the agency’s modern science program.

Source: NASA.Gov

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Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the memory card carrying the names of 1,350,144 people is about to be attached to a commemorative plaque that will be installed on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the memory card carrying the names of 1,350,144 people is about to be attached to a commemorative plaque that will be installed on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

NASA / Jolearra Tshiteya

Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the memory card carrying the names of 1,350,144 people is being attached to a commemorative plaque that will be installed on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

NASA / Jolearra Tshiteya

Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the memory card carrying the names of 1,350,144 people is attached to a commemorative plaque that will be installed on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

NASA / Jolearra Tshiteya

Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, mechanical technician Harry Willems attached the memory card carrying the names of 1,350,144 people to a commemorative plaque that will be installed on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, mechanical technician Harry Willems attached the memory card carrying the names of 1,350,144 people to a commemorative plaque that will be installed on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

NASA / Jolearra Tshiteya

Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians and engineers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California take a group photo with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope...on July 8, 2026.

Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians and engineers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California take a group photo with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope...on July 8, 2026.

NASA / Jolearra Tshiteya

Friday, July 17, 2026

Over a Million Names Will Virtually Fly on America's Next Great Observatory!

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