Submit your Boarding pass for the Roman Telescope
NASA invites the public to submit their names to fly aboard the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in the 2020s. Participants can add their names to a microchip that will travel through space, similar to previous NASA missions.
Background
- NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (formerly WFIRST) is a next-generation observatory set to launch in the mid-2020s. It has a field of view 100 times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope, allowing it to survey vast areas of sky quickly and study dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.
- Nancy Grace Roman was NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy and is often called the “mother of the Hubble Space Telescope” for her role in making Hubble a reality.
- “Send Your Name” campaigns are a long NASA tradition (Mars rovers, Artemis, Europa Clipper): the agency uploads submitted names onto a microchip that flies aboard the spacecraft, as a public engagement gesture — no physical cargo.
- This particular campaign invites the public to submit their name to be carried on a microchip aboard Roman. It functions as a symbolic “boarding pass,” not a literal ticket.