How NASA Could Save Kepler

Scott Hubbard, former director of the NASA Ames Research Center, speculates on how NASA could revive the ailing space telescope. Yesterday NASA officials confirmed that the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope had suffered a mechanical failure, throwing into question the telescope's ability to continue its mission. But Kepler is not dead just yet. Speaking to Stanford News Service, consulting professor of aeronautics and astronautics Scott Hubbard--the former director of NASA Ames Research C...