NASA Hosts Kepler Spacecraft Status Teleconference Today

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May 15, 2013

J.D. Harrington
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-5241
j.d.har...@nasa.gov

Michele Johnson
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
650-604-6982
michele...@nasa.gov

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NASA HOSTS KEPLER SPACECRAFT STATUS TELECONFERENCE TODAY

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT,
today, May 15, to discuss the status of the agency's Kepler Space
Telescope.

Kepler is the first NASA mission capable of finding Earth-size planets
in or near the habitable zone, which is the range of distance from a
star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be
suitable for liquid water. Launched in 2009, Kepler has been
detecting planets and planet candidates with a wide range of sizes
and orbital distances to help scientists better understand our place
in the galaxy.

The briefing participants are:
-- John Grunsfeld, associate administrator, Science Mission
Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington
-- Paul Hertz, astrophysics director, NASA Headquarters, Washington
-- William Borucki, Kepler science principal investigator, Ames
Research Center, Calif.
-- Charles Sobeck, deputy project manager, Ames Research Center,
Calif.

For dial-in information, journalists should e-mail their name,
affiliation and telephone number to J.D. Harrington at
j.d.har...@nasa.gov. Media representatives and the public also
can questions via Twitter to #AskNASA.

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on NASA's website
at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

For more information about the Kepler mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/kepler

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