NASA honored the Kepler space telescope by renaming its science operations center to the "Kepler Science Operations Center" in 2022. The center, located at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, is responsible for collecting, processing, and analyzing data from the Kepler telescope. The decision to rename the center in honor of Kepler recognized the telescope's immense contribution to the field of exoplanet research and its role in helping humans better understand the cosmos.