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William J. (Bill) Borucki (born 1939) is a space scientist who worked at the NASA Ames Research Center. Upon joining NASA in 1962, Borucki joined the group conducting research on the heat shield for Apollo program spacecraft. [1]
William Borucki is a space scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. He grew up in Delavan, Wisconsin. In 1960 and 1962 he received BSc and MSc degrees in physics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and then joined the Hypersonic Free Flight Branch at NASA Ames.
Science Principal Investigator - NASA Kepler Mission. Where are you from? I grew up in Delavan, Wis. Currently, I am living in Sunnyvale, Calif. Describe the first time you made a personal connection with outer space. I remember looking through a telescope at a cub scout outing in a dark forest on a dark night with the sky filled with stars.
I was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1939 to Steven and Anna Borucki. When I was two years old, we moved to Delavan Wisconsin where I grew up enjoying starry skies, the freedom to build things, and a great nearby library. As a boy, I built model airplanes, launched homemade rockets, built radios, and became a radio amateur.
Mar 3, 2024 · Bill Borucki was inducted as an Ames Fellow in 2013 for his incredible career and contributions to science at NASA Ames Research Center. His work at Ames started in 1962 with research for the Apollo heat shields. In more recent years, Mr. Borucki pioneered the Kepler mission and fundamentally changed our view of life in the universe.
May 4, 2024 · William Borucki conceived the idea and led the scientific and engineering teams for the Kepler observatory, a NASA mission that discovered 4706 exoplanet candidates (and counting) and confirmed over 2300 (and counting).
Borucki et al. (p. 977 , published online 7 January) summarize the planetary findings derived from the first six weeks of observations with the Kepler mission whose objective is to search for and determine the frequency of Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of other stars.
