NASA is preparing to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope next month on a SpaceX rocket.
It's named after the "mother" of the Hubble telescope, but will produce an image so large, it will allow NASA to see parts of the universe we’ve never seen before.
NBC News’ Tom Costello got to look at the new telescope up close.
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