NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Arrives at Kennedy Space Center for Final Pre-Launch Preparations

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrived June 21, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking the start of final prelaunch preparations before liftoff later this summer.

After teams completed integration and testing on the observatory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, they loaded Roman into a protective and environmentally controlled transportation container and drove it to the port of Baltimore.

There, the agency's Pegasus barge safely transported the nearly 18,000-pound (8,200-kilogram) spacecraft down the coast of the Atlantic Ocean to it