Recently, technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida installed a tiny memory card holding the names onto the observatory. The names were submitted by space enthusiasts from all over the world, including the astronauts from Artemis II and Artemis III Moon missions. NASA has placed a commemorative plaque containing 1,350,144 names onto its upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
The space agency recently shared details of the project on Instagram, asking, “Is your name part of our legacy of exploration and discovery?”
NASA revealed that the memory card will travel with the Roman observatory to the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, or L2.
Once in position, the Roman telescope will conduct wide-area surveys of the night sky. Equipped with a camera that offers a view 100 times larger than Hubble’s, it will search for thousands of distant exoplanets, map billions of galaxies, and help scientists uncover the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter.
