Success: Kepler Lifts Off to Look for Other Earths

[Fraser]

NASA's Kepler mission lifted off without a hitch just before 11 p.m. local time Friday from*Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.* The launch was a bit of a nail-biter, coming on the heels of*last week's failure*of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, which plummeted into the ocean when its fairing malfunctioned. But everything for the Kepler launch [...]

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[sohh_fly]

i watched the launch, it was beautiful.
the next 5 year's should be very interesting indeed.
let the good time's roll or orbit.