Congratulations on a beautiful launch, Kepler team!
We watched and twittered it live, along with hundreds (thousands?) of other tweeps. If you were there, leave us a comment and tell us what you thought! If you missed it, check out the NASA TV clips and/or the twitterstream for #kepler. It’s pretty amazing to watch so many reactions, from all over the world.
Planetary science captures the imagination of the world … again!
The Kepler mission was originally selected by the Discovery Program as the tenth in a series of low-cost, quick-development missions led by a single principal investigator and competitively selected by NASA through the AO process. Kepler is searching for earth-like planets around other stars.
Posted by Twittering Kepler « Toddler Planet on March 7, 2009 at 1:19 am
[...] friends and strangers on twitter. We logged on and twittered it live, commenting along the way and supporting the team. The twitters were fast and furious, as everyone, from science geeks to media types to Florida [...]