SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH:
2009 March 6 at 10:49 pm EST.

Ejection of the Dust Cover:
2009 April 7

Media from Kennedy Space Center (KSC)

Press Conference Media Resources
Full Press Kit
(3 Mb pdf)

NASA Kepler webcasts

Pre-launch Media Resources

Photo below by Ben Cooper http://www.launchphotography.com; originally posted at http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090309.html

Photo below by Jacques Amable: mosaic of 6 pictures taken between the liftoff and 120s after of the Kepler telescope on a Delta Rocket II 2009 Mar 07, Cape Canaveral, FL. We can see the light in the PAD 17, the smoke, the separation of the boosters (in red) and the Big Dipper in the sky. www.deepskyjam.com