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JOHANNES KEPLER: THEN, NOW AND FOREVERBY: Bob Krone, Ph.D..Provost, Kepler Space University

This is a Kepler Space University story about the Astronomer we revere and whose name we have taken for our University. I am Dr. Bob Krone, Kepler Space Universitys Provost. 1

From 600 to 1500 AD the Claudius Ptolemy explanation of what was happening in the sky was accepted. Earth was center with Stars, Sun, Planets, and Moon circling. Then came Nicolas Copernicus who published his lifes studies in 1543. The Sun stood stationary , the Planets orbited. And Space was much larger than the Solar system. Copernicus died at age 70 Then came Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler. Tycho advanced observational accuracy. and built the worlds largest observatory. Galileo introduced the telescope and championed Copernicus findings. Isaac Newton was born 1642, the year Galileo died. His Law of universal gravitation merged Earth and Space sciences.

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Lets start with ancient history. This slide covers 17 centuries of beliefs about the universe being Earth Centered followed by an understanding that Earth and the planets orbit the Sun. We start with Claudius Ptolemy, whose understanding of how Earth;s Solar system worked was accepted for 900 years. Then came the findings of Nicolas Copernicus putting the Sun at the center of our system. He was followed by Four scientists = Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler -- whose intellectual efforts confirmed and documented the Copernicus Sun centered discovery. 2

Chinas first Imperial Observatory in Beijings Forbidden City where Jesuit Astronomer Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-1688) added instruments Perfected by Tycho BraheTycho Brahe (1546 - 1601) developed positional astronomy of stars, planets and comets and built his Observatory on Uraniburg Island, Denmark

Danish Nobleman Tycho Brahe had an obsession with accurately measuring what happens in the heavens. At age 25 he was considered Europes premier astronomer. Chinese astronomers added his instruments to their observatories. 3

Oil painting by Peter Breugel, the Elder depictingThe first great Observatory, 1563

Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler remain honored today for their major contributions to the oldest Science.4

YOUNG ASTRONOMER AND MATHEMATICIAN JOHANNES KEPLER (1571 1630), was charged in 1600 to analyze Tycho Brahs data and to fully describe the planetary orbits. Tycho died in 1601. Kepler created his solid model of the Solar System and published it in his Mysterium Cosmographicum:

KEPLERS THREE LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION:

First Law: All planets move in ellipses, with the Sun at one focus. (1605)Second Law: Planets sweep out equal areas in equal times. (1602) Third Law: The square of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances. (1620)

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And it was Johannes Keplers detailed calculations that made Keplers name the logical choice for our 21st Century University. Here you see his constructed model of the Solar System and his three laws of planetary motion.5

JOHANNES KEPLER: NOW

Which brings us to todays situation on Earth in a Universe we still dont fully understand.6

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7After two decades of seeing a need for a new Space University it was this book, published in 2006,Co-authored by 42 Space Professionals that catapulted Kepler Space Universiy into existence on 1 January 2009.

The Kepler Telescope was launched on 7 March 2009. Its mission is to be a NASA Space observatory designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. The first six weeks of data revealed five previously unknown planets, all very close to their stars. September 2010 Kepler had found 700 planet candidates and documented nine confirmed planets.

Two months later NASA launched the Kepler Telescope with the specific mission of searching the Universe for Earth-like planets.8

The Kepler Telescope is designed to search one starfield for Suns with Earth-like planets outside our Solar System over the next four years. The field chosen has 145,000 stars. 9

JOHANNES KEPLER: FOREVER

The Kepler Space University Team is building dreams and academics for the long term future. 10THE KEPLER SPACE UNIVERSITY LAW OF SPACE ABUNDANCE*

Space offers unbounded resources to meet human needs * NOTE: Space resources have been known for decades. The KSU Founders formulated this law in 2008.

11Our answer to the question of Why should humans go to Space? can be found in this Law of Space Abundance. Documenting Space resources has been a goal for the half-century of human Space flights.At KSU we know of the human urge for flight that is within our genes, but humanitys increasing needs on Earth and as humans settle in Space is the fundamental driver for Space Exploration and settlement.

KSU is pursuing national and regional accreditation with the U.S. Dept of Education and the U.S. Council of Higher Education Accreditation.

Meeting the needs for the future of humans on earth and in space, with the dreams and skills of global scholars http://www.keplerspaceuniversity.orgSchool of CommunicationsSchool of EducationSchool of Health Care ManagementSchool of Policy Sciences Law Science ProgramSchool of Science, Technology & EngineeringSchool of PsychologySchool of Strategic ManagementKSU Space Faith AcademyKSU Virtual High SchoolScholar Personalized Education 100% Online

12As of the Fall of 2010 these are the Schools and academic subjects we are building to advance science and technology for the future benefits of humans both on Earth and in Space.

Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking called for an era of Space conquest stating;

Spreading out into Space will have an even greater effect than Christopher Columbus discovery of the New World. It will completely change the future of the human race and maybe determine whether we have any future at all

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And we believe that Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking is correct in his prediction that human survival will depend on the success of its spreading out into Space. 13

Bob Krone, 2010

Bob Krone, 1963

For all of those reasons we, the Kepler Team, selected Johannes Keplers name for the newest Space University. And our ultimate vision is that human exploration and settlement in Space willProvide the inspirational model for human civiization to expand in peace on Earth and in our Solar System. Scenarios for two very divergent paths are clearly plausible. Humans can collaborate to build and exceed, or we can continue Earths history of human degradation , conflict and war that threatens Human survival. Our human future in space is one potential solution to this dilemma.

14A World in TuneSomewhere, somehow, we must find a common ground of understanding, of mutual respect, of enjoyment and enthusiasm in doing something together Max & Beatrice Krone (1959)___________________ Dr. Max Krone was Dean of the Institute of the Arts at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, 1940-1967. Beatrice Krone was a music educator. Together they founded, in 1950, the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts in California, a 100-Building Idyllwild Arts Campus. Today.

Kepler Space University Belief: Space can be that Something

The Kepler Space University

15A World in Tune strikes many as an impossible dream in 2010. Its importance is the reason that searching for it must continue. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Kepler Supernova Discovered in 1604 James S. Trefil, SpaceTimeInfinity, Smithsonian Books, Pantheon Books, New York, 1985 http://Kepler.nasa.gov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler Bob Krone, Ph.D., Editor, Beyond Earth: The Future of Humans in Space, 2006, Apogee Books.

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