“NASA’s Kepler Mission and Small Spacecraft Technologies: Today and Beyond”

Charter lecture, featuring Roger Hunter, Program Manager, NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program.

On the day of his graduation from UGA with a degree in mathematics in 1978, Hunter was commissioned as an officer in the Air Force, where he served for 22 years. He joined NASA in 2008 and served as project manager for NASA's Kepler Mission, the first mission capable of finding potentially habitable planets in the Milky Way Galaxy. He currently serves as associate director of the NASA Ames Research Center.

The Charter Lecture series was established in 1988 to honor the high ideals expressed in the 1785 charter that made UGA the birthplace of public higher education in America. Past Charter lecturers are listed below.

Sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost.