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NASA launches planet-hunting spacecraft ‘Kepler’
By Sandy on March 7, 2009
US space agency NASA on Friday successfully launched ‘Kepler’, a planet-hunting spacecraft designed to look for Earth-like planets around distant stars. A Delta II rocket, carrying the Kepler, lifted off at 10:49 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Engineers at NASA acquired a signal from Kepler at 12:11 a.m. Saturday, after it separated Read more »
