The Exoplanet Sleuth Behind NASA's Kepler Mission

Space scientist William "Bill" Borucki is a soft-spoken, pleasant person who grew up in a small town in Wisconsin where he liked to build and launch rockets. He still does, and he convinced NASA to build and launch Kepler, the first spacecraft capable of finding Earth-size planets orbiting other stars.Bill displays a number of similarities to another mild-mannered Midwesterner, a guy named Clark