Oct 30, 2018   SOURCE: PR NewsWire

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

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.

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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