Falcon Heavy Transit
NASA/John Kraus
- Glossy metal print
- 20 × 16 in · floats ½ in off the wall
- Dye-infused aluminum.
- Printed in the US. Ships in the US.
The photograph
This photograph was taken at 7:26:30am ET on 30 August 2026, as Falcon Heavy climbed from LC-39A at Kennedy with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the fairing. The stack is a dark silhouette just under the top of the solar disk. The exhaust is a bright, textured column down the face of the Sun, and the morning sky around it is a warm haze.
Taken from Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A, 30 August 2026, 7:26:30am ET. 1 AU.
The mission
Falcon Heavy is a three-core heavy-lift rocket. This flight carried the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from pad 39A toward Sun–Earth L2. Roman was built at NASA Goddard as a wide infrared survey telescope, with a 2.4-meter mirror the same size as Hubble’s and a field of view at least a hundred times larger. Each frame is meant to take in a patch of sky Hubble would need many pointings to cover.
The observatory separated at 7:58am ET and is on its way to Sun–Earth L2 for a five-year primary mission to measure dark energy, map galaxies, and find planets around other stars. This is the vehicle in the first seconds of that climb, crossing the Sun.
The metal
Dye-infused into aluminum. A hidden float mount sits the panel ½ in off the wall.
Shipping
Printed to order. Packed rigid, ships in 5–8 days. Free freight over $250.