Who was Nancy Grace Roman, the pioneering astronomer who defied prejudice and gave her name to NASA's new space telescope?

NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope this Sunday at 7:26 a.m. EDT aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission is designed to expand the limits of astronomical knowledge and is projected to transform modern astronomy by rewriting what humanity knows about the universe.

The telescope is named after Nancy Grace Roman, a pioneering astronomer who overcame prejudice and whose scientific work previously made the Hubble Space Telescope possible.