NASA to launch planet-hunting telescope Friday

A NASA telescope was cleared to launch on Friday on a mission to look for Earth-like planets around other stars and determine whether there are places that could support human-like life beyond our solar system. Liftoff of the Kepler telescope is scheduled for 10:49 p.m. EST on Friday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. This is a historical mission," NASA's space science chief Ed Weiler told reporters on Thursday. More

(Source: Reuters - Mar 6)