NASA To Show Kepler Spacecraft During Media Opportunity Jan. 30

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Jan. 26, 2009

George H. Diller/Tracy Young
Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 
321-867-2468
george.h.diller@nasa.gov / tracy.g.young@nasa.gov

Whitney Clavin
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena. Calif. 
818-354-4673
whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: 03-09

NASA TO SHOW KEPLER SPACECRAFT DURING MEDIA OPPORTUNITY JAN. 30

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Kepler spacecraft, that will be 
launched in March aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, 
will be the focus of a media opportunity on Friday, Jan. 30. The 
event will be held at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in 
Titusville, Fla., and will start at 10 a.m. EST. 

The event will include an opportunity to photograph the space 
telescope and to interview project officials from NASA and Ball 
Aerospace, builder of the spacecraft. Media may proceed directly to 
Astrotech located in the Spaceport Florida Industrial Park, 1515 
Chaffee Drive, Titusville. Access begins at 9:45 a.m. The event will 
last approximately two hours.

Spokespeople available will be:

- Jim Fanson, Kepler project manager
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

- John Troeltzsch, program manager
Ball Aerospace

- Armando Piloto, Kepler KSC mission manager
NASA's Kennedy Space Center

For the media event, procedures for optically sensitive spacecraft 
must be followed by individuals entering the clean room where the 
spacecraft is being processed. Guidelines for controlled access to 
the clean room have been developed by quality control personnel and 
will be monitored prior to entering the facility. Full clean room 
attire (bunny suits) must be worn and will be furnished. 
Photographers may be requested to clean cameras or accessories using 
alcohol wipes which will be provided.

Long pants, shirts with sleeves and closed-toe shoes must be worn -- 
no shorts or skirts. Non-essential equipment, such as camera bags or 
other carrying cases, should be left outside the clean room. No 
pencils or felt-tipped pens can be permitted inside the clean room; 
only ball-point pens may be used. No food, tobacco, chewing gum, 
lighters, matches or pocket knives will be allowed. Please do not 
wear perfume, cologne or makeup.

Wireless microphones and electronic flash photography are permitted in 
this facility. There is adequate metal halide lighting in the 
facility for photography (white with a slight green cast; suggested 
exposure for ISO-ASA 400 is 1/30 sec. at f/5.6).

Kepler is designed to survey more that 100,000 stars in our galaxy to 
determine the number of sun-like stars that have Earth-size and 
larger planets, including those that lie in a star's "habitable 
zone," a region where liquid water, and perhaps life, could exist. If 
these Earth-size worlds do exist around stars like our sun, Kepler is 
expected to be the first to find them and the first to measure how 
common they are.

The Delta II rocket is being prepared for flight by United Launch 
Alliance at Space Launch Complex 17 on Cape Canaveral Air Force 
Station. The liftoff is currently planned for March 5 at 10:48 p.m. 
EST.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. is responsible for 
designing and developing the spacecraft and its instruments. Ball 
Aerospace in Boulder, Colo., built the spacecraft for JPL. The NASA 
Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., is responsible for 
mission science. The NASA Launch Services Program at the Kennedy 
Space Center is responsible for the launch management and the 
countdown for the Delta II.

For more information about Kepler and its mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/kepler 

	
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