Although the official Nasa press release says that "the Delta II rocket carrying the Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft lifted off on time at 10:49 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida" I think they were slightly off schedule. Which means: they launched it too early! We were anchored out last night just out of Fort Pierce and watched the countdown on Nasa's webpage, when Robbie suddenly turned around and yelled: "There's the rocket!" And there it was. Actually it flew in a perfect curve and didn't bounce through the atmosphere as it may seem in the video. Kepler's mission: to look for rocky planets similar our own. "Kepler is a critical component in NASA's broader efforts to ultimately find and study planets where Earth-like conditions may be present," said Jon Morse, the Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Robbie suspected they will probably find out that the unemployment rate on Jupiter is 14% - due to their high gas prices.
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