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NASA'S Kepler Telescope to Launch Aboard Delta II Rocke...

02.26.09

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, f...

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NASA Ames to Host Workshop to Bring Together Aerospace ...

02.25.09

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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Milwaukee Native Helps NASA Search for Earth-Size Plane...

02.25.09

David Koch, the deputy principal investigator for the NASA Kepler Mission, has spent his life building things.

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NASA'S Kepler Telescope to Launch Aboard Delta II Rocket

02.26.09 - 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.
NASA Ames to Host Workshop to Bring Together Aerospace Experts

02.25.09 - 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.
NASA Awards Rotorcraft Technology Development Contract

02.25.09 - NASA has selected three companies to receive a subsonic rotary wing technology development contract valued at $40 million.
Milwaukee Native Helps NASA Search for Earth-Size Planets

02.25.09 - David Koch, the deputy principal investigator for the NASA Kepler Mission, has spent his life building things.
NASA Tradition Continues from Generation to Generation

02.25.09 - 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.
NASA Technologies Predict Stored Carbon in U.S. Forest

02.20.09 - The magnitude of the greenhouse gas emission is why scientists now are examining the amount of carbon stored in forests as a means to offset industrial pollution sources.