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NASA's Kepler Mission Set For Launch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Kepler mission to seek other Earth-like planets is undergoing final preparations for liftoff Friday, March 6, from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft launch aboard a Delta II rocket has two windows of opportunity Friday, from 10:49 to 10:52 p.m. and 11:13 to 11:16 p.m. EST.
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NASA Ames Invites News Media for Live Broadcast of Kepler Launch
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., -- News media and the public are invited to observe the live televised broadcast of the countdown and launch of the Kepler mission on Friday, March 6, 2009 in the Exploration Center at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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Long Journey to Liftoff
William Borucki has been working on the ideas behind the Kepler mission for over two decades.
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NASA'S Kepler Telescope to Launch Aboard Delta II Rocket
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Launch of NASA's Kepler telescope is targeted for no earlier than Friday, March 6, from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. There are two launch windows, from 10:49 - 10:52 p.m. and 11:13 - 11:16 p.m. EST.
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Milwaukee Native Helps NASA Search for Earth-Size Planets
David Koch, the deputy principal investigator for the NASA Kepler Mission, has spent his life building things.
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NASA Tradition Continues from Generation to Generation
In the 1960s, two employees from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) met on a blind date. The couple eventually married and had twin identical boys one of whom has grown up to be the lead for the data analysis group of NASA's Kepler Mission - Jon Jenkins of NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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NASA's Kepler Mission to Seek Other Earths
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Kepler spacecraft is now at the launch pad and will soon begin a journey to search for worlds that could potentially host life.
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NASA Kepler Launch International Media Accreditation Ends Feb. 5
The launch of NASA's Kepler telescope, the first mission capable of finding Earth-size planets around other stars, is scheduled for March 5 at 7:48 p.m. Pacific Time (10:48 p.m. Eastern time), from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Ready to Ship to Florida
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – Engineers are getting ready to pack NASA's Kepler spacecraft into a container and ship it off to its launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Baked and Ready for More Tests
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission, scheduled to launch in 2009, has survived an extreme temperature test.
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NASA Ames Conducts Tests of Kepler Mission Image Detectors
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – Sensitive detectors that may help find habitable planets orbiting distant stars as part of NASA’s Kepler Mission are undergoing tests at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.