A NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day entry dated August 31, 2026 described the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope as launching the previous day from Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
NASA leadership, JPL and Deep Space Network officials held a ceremonial ribbon cutting on Aug. 25, 2026, in front of the newly completed Deep Space Station 23 antenna near Barstow, California.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched Aug. 30, 2026, on a planned three-month journey to a million-mile orbit to study dark matter, dark energy and exoplanets.
NASA and SpaceX are delaying the Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station after an oxidizer leak was found in Dragon's propulsion system during prelaunch processing, the agency said in a report dated Aug. 29, 2026.
The August 28, 2026 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day shows star-trail arcs centered on the south celestial pole above an auxiliary telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, about 25 degrees south.
A NASA article dated Aug. 27, 2026, described the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope as targeted to launch no earlier than Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, on a mission to study dark energy and dark matter.
NASA reported on August 27, 2026, that Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL fired its thrusters for 20 minutes, 43 seconds, raising the International Space Station's orbit ahead of the planned Progress 96 launch.
NASA said astronaut Jonny Kim's last day at the agency was Aug. 27, 2026, after nearly a decade of service and an eight-month International Space Station expedition. He was returning to active duty in the U.S. Navy.
A single 5-second exposure taken in April 2025 captured aurora colors over Iceland's Skógafoss waterfall, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day noted on August 27, 2026.
As reported on Aug. 26, 2026, NASA said Expedition 75 wrapped up a six-hour, 30-minute spacewalk installing a high-speed antenna outside the International Space Station, with a Sept. 1 spacewalk planned.
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for August 26, 2026 featured a James Webb Space Telescope composite of the Lion's Head Nebula (NGC 2392), built from NIRCam and MIRI data.
NASA's Deep Space Network added the 34-meter Deep Space Station 23 at its Goldstone complex near Barstow, California; the dish began operations on Aug. 3, 2026, per the Aug. 25, 2026 report.
