Message #1282392

[mimontero88]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/25/kepler-space-telescope-nasa_n_3653455.html#slide=2396347

Kepler is all but dead.  It may still be useful in some facet but the massive search for exoplanets is probably over.  And, unfortunately, even if NASA were properly funded, Kepler orbits the Sun, not the Earth, and is 40 million miles away, a bit further than the distance to Mars.  We can't get to it to fix the wheels.