05-May-2008, 11:11 PM
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Send Your Name into Space with the Kepler Mission
Send Your Name into Space with the Kepler Mission
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Would you like to send your name into space? Submit your name using the form below an it will be stored on a DVD and rocketed into space on board the Kepler spacecraft.
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Kepler is NASA's first mission capable of detecting Earth-size and smaller planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars. The spacecraft is planned to be launched from Kennedy Space Center in February 2009. The spacecraft will be launched into orbit around the Sun, not the Earth, with an orbital period of 372 days. The spacecraft will slowly drift away from the Earth, such that in about 25 years it will be half an Earth orbit away, 300 million kilometers distant from the Earth, passing behind the Sun as viewed from Earth.
The deadline to submit your name is November 1, 2008.
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