
The Kepler Mission Science Principal Investigator Dr William 'Bill' Borucki in his office at NASA Ames Research center.

The Kepler Mission Science Principal Investigator Dr William 'Bill' Borucki in his office at NASA Ames Research center.

Dr William 'Bill' Borucki, NASA Ames Scientist on the Kepler Mission and John W. 'Jack' Boyd, NASA Ames Historian at the Ames Arc Jet Complex, Aerodynamic Heating Facility talking with a Mercury News photographer about the Kepler Mission and the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission.

Dr William 'Bill' Borucki, NASA Ames Scientist on the Kepler Mission and John W. 'Jack' Boyd, NASA Ames Historian at the Ames Arc Jet Complex, Aerodynamic Heating Facility talking with a Mercury News photographer about the Kepler Mission and the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission.

Dr. William 'Bill' Borucki

Dr William 'Bill' Borucki being interview on NBC KNTV's program Press Here on the KEPLER mission by a panel of reporters. L-R: Dr Borucki, NASA Ames Research Center, Jon Swartz, USA today, Elizabeth Corcoran, Forbes Executive Editor and host Scott McGrew, NBC KNTV.

Dr William 'Bill' Borucki being interview on NBC KNTV's program Press Here on the KEPLER mission by a panel of reporters. L-R: Dr Borucki, NASA Ames Research Center, Jon Swartz, USA today, Elizabeth Corcoran, Forbes Executive Editor and host Scott McGrew, NBC KNTV.

Dr William 'Bill' Borucki being interview on NBC KNTV's program Press Here on the KEPLER mission by a panel of reporters. L-R: Dr Borucki, NASA Ames Research Center, Jon Swartz, USA today, Elizabeth Corcoran, Forbes Executive Editor and host Scott McGrew, NBC KNTV.

Environmental portrait of William 'Bill' Borucki, Principal Investigator for the Kepler Mission at NASA's Ames Research Center.

Environmental portrait of William 'Bill' Borucki, Principal Investigator for the Kepler Mission at NASA's Ames Research Center.

Kepler Program VIP's from left Natalie Batalha, Bill Borucki and Jon Jenkins in the Kepler Laboratory at the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA (for aviation week).

NASA Advisory Council Meeting at NASA Ames Research Center NRP Conference Center. Charlie Bolden, NASA Administrator (left) and William 'Bill' Borucki, Kepler PI

Kepler Program VIP's from left Jon Jenkins, Natalie Batalha, and Bill Borucki pointing at the NASA Ames Hyperwall in the NAS (NASA Advanced Supercomputing) facility filled with exo-planets discovered during Kepler Mission. Moffett Field, CA (for aviation week)

Kepler Program VIP's from left Natalie Batalha, Bill Borucki and Jon Jenkins in front of a NASA Ames Hyperwall display of newly discovered planet K-22B art at the NAS (NASA Advanced Supercomputing) Facility, Moffett Field, CA (for aviation week)

Kepler News Briefing, held in the Syvertson auditorium at the NASA Ames Research Center. The briefing presented discoveries from the continuing Kepler mission (K2). The team discovered some of the smallest planets found in the habitable zone of two newly discovered planetary systems. Bill Borucki (left), Kepler Scientist, Principal Investigator, NASA Ames Lisa Kaltengger (right), Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg Germany and Research Associate, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge Massachusetts.

John W. 'Jack Boyd holds a plaque presented to Harvey Allen in recognition of his outstanding solution of the reentry heating problem which has been indispensable to the design of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft (Manned Spacecraft Center, November 14, 1968) Plaque contains samples of tested materials and models of spacecraft.

A plaque presented to Harvey Allen in recognition of his outstanding solution of the reentry heating problem which has been indispensable to the design of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft (Manned Spacecraft Center, November 14, 1968) Plaque contains samples of tested materials and models of spacecraft.