John Troeltzsch is the Kepler mission program manager for Ball Aerospace. He received his Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado in 1983 and was immediately hired by Ball Aerospace. While working at Ball, he continued his studies at C.U. and received his Masters of Science in Aerospace Engineering in 1989.

During his 31 years at Ball Aerospace, John has worked on three of Hubble’s science instruments and in program management for the Spitzer Space Telescope. Following Spitzer’s launch in 2003, John joined Ball’s Kepler team and was named program manager in 2007. For the Kepler mission, he has managed the Ball team, including responsibility for cost, schedule, and performance requirements.

We had the pleasure of interviewing John during our Asteroid Day 2015 event in San Francisco. We talked about the proposed Sentinel Mission telescope as well as finding Near-Earth Objects before they hit us.

Watch it here:

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Asteroid Day, June 30th 2015
California Academy of Sciences
San Francisco, California