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NASA will host a virtual news conference to preview the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, scheduled to launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Aug. 30. Participants in the briefing, who will provide an overview of the mission and its status, include: - Shawn Domagal-Goldman, director, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters in Washington - Jackie Townsend, Roman telescope project manager, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland - Julie McEnery, Roman telescope senior project scientist, NASA Goddard - Jeremy Perkins, Roman telescope integration and test scientist, NASA Goddard