I shouldn't call it a no news day, it's just that the biggest story in the Space domain is the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Sunday morning at 7:26 AM EDT and we've covered that many times, most recently just two days ago. Weather permitting, I'll be watching from the side yard as long as I can.
Chelsea Gohd, Content Manager and writer at Space.com tells a nice story of meeting Dr. Roman in 2017, nine years ago. She was already referred to as "the Mother of Hubble" at that point, making her legendary to the writers there. That was around one year before Dr. Roman passed away, on Dec. 25, 2018 at the age of 93.
Nancy Grace Roman stands next to a scale model of the Hubble Space Telescope outside the Hubble control center at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. “Mother of Hubble” with her brainchild. (Image credit: NASA)
The source article doesn't associate a date with this image. My guess is simply after Hubble had begun its mission, so between maybe 1995 (after the COSTAR optics fix was done) and before the end of the Shuttle program in 2011. Somewhere in the early 2000s.
The second most interesting news of the last day or so is that SpaceX Boca Chica static fire tested the booster for flight test 14 (that's a YouTube "short") and the general feeling from the coverage is that it went by the book. There is no date for FT-14 published yet. A rough guess based on how previous flights have gone past this point lean me toward the middle of September, around two weeks from now.
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