Kepler's bureaucratic history was even more tortured than Corot's, but the spacecraft is headed for launch on April 10, 2009, and astronomers are counting on it to settle the question of just how common Earths are — a result that will guide the whole
future search for life in the universe.
The second story sees thinking machines from the
future travel back
in time
in search of their creator, Alan Turing, while the final story, made with nanobiophysicist Bart Hoogenboom, travels across the
universe on a mission to find the origins of
life and a cure
for death.