{"id":107599,"date":"2020-05-25T00:03:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T07:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/next-generation-nasa-space-telescope-named-for-mother-of-hubble-nancy-grace-roman"},"modified":"2020-05-25T00:03:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T07:03:49","slug":"next-generation-nasa-space-telescope-named-for-mother-of-hubble-nancy-grace-roman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/next-generation-nasa-space-telescope-named-for-mother-of-hubble-nancy-grace-roman","title":{"rendered":"Next-Generation NASA Space Telescope Named for \u2018Mother of Hubble\u2019 Nancy Grace Roman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hnB3yzgICsU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em> At the agency\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, team members are building the Coronagraph Instrument for the spacecraft and contributing to the mission\u2019s science goals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>NASA is naming its next-generation space telescope currently under development, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), in honor of Nancy Grace Roman, NASA\u2019s first chief astronomer, who paved the way for space telescopes focused on the broader universe.<\/p>\n<p>The newly named Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope \u2013 or Roman Space Telescope, for short \u2013 is set to launch in the mid-2020s. It will investigate long-standing astronomical mysteries, such as the force behind the universe\u2019s expansion, and search for distant planets beyond our solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the agency\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, team members are building the Coronagraph Instrument for the spacecraft and contributing to the mission\u2019s science goals. NASA is naming its next-generation space telescope currently under development, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), in honor of Nancy Grace Roman, NASA\u2019s first chief astronomer, who paved the way for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}