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NASA to Hold Media Call on Status of Kepler Space Telescope Today

NASA to Hold Media Call on Status of Kepler Space Telescope Today

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — NASA is hosting a media teleconference on the status of the Kepler space telescope today, Oct. 30, at 3 p.m. EDT.

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The participants are:

  • Paul Hertz, Astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington
  • Charlie Sobeck, project system engineer at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley
  • William Borucki, retired Kepler principal investigator
  • Jessie Dotson, Kepler project scientist at Ames
  • Padi Boyd, project scientist for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland

Media who would like to participate in the teleconference should e-mail their name, affiliation and telephone number to Felicia Chou at felicia.chou@nasa.gov no later than 2 p.m. EDT.

Questions can be submitted via Twitter during and after the teleconference using the hashtag #askNASA.

The teleconference audio will also be streamed live at:

http://www.nasa.gov/live

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