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When SpaceX has launched NASA's new powerful telescope into space, it's designed to investigate cosmic enigmas and search for planets beyond our solar system. NTD's Jason Perry has the details. Three, two, one, ignition, and liftoff. One of NASA's most powerful telescopes launching into space from Florida on Sunday on a mission to probe some of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics and cosmology. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was carried into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon heavy rocket. The telescope will travel toward an orbital location situated about a million miles from Earth, and it's designed to investigate cosmic enigmas such as dark energy and dark matter while also searching for exoplanets, which are planets beyond our solar system. Why do we care so much about exoplanets? An associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate explains. Because one of our main goals at NASA is answering the question, are we alone in the universe? Whether you like space, whether you like technology, whatever it is, people look up at the sky and they think, you know, am I alone? Are we alone? Is there another Earth 2.0 looking back at me? And she says Roman will allow them to look at distant worlds and know whether they could be habitable. You're live, Mr. President. President Trump calling NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman during the press conference to congratulate them. Jared's doing a fantastic job, you are doing a fantastic job, and I'm supplying you all that money. Well, Mr. President, you've got a lot of smiling people in the room right now that are very happy to hear those words, and we will put it to excellent use. NASA says that the Roman Space Telescope will have the potential to reveal more than 100,000 planets beyond our solar system. Roman's mission is planned for five years, though the U.S. Space Agency says the telescope may have enough fuel for five additional years. Jason Perry, NTV News.