NASA’s Kepler Mission Set for Launch Mar. 5

Credit: BALL AEROSPACE
It will be one of the most technically complex spacecraft NASA has ever launched, but its mission is pretty straight-forward—an unblinking look for Earth-like planets orbiting 100,000 Sun-like stars deep in the Milky Way. Named for Johannes Kepler, the 17th-century mathematician and astronomer who...

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