[3] Kessler worked at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, as part of NASA's Environmental Effects Project Office.
With Burton G. Cour-Palais, Kessler first published his ideas in 1978, in an academic paper titled "Collision Frequency of Artificial Satellites: The Creation of a Debris Belt.
In 2009, he gave an address to the first International Conference on Orbital Debris Removal in Arlington, Virginia, co-sponsored by NASA and DARPA.
[4] In 2011, he was a key adviser in the making of the educational IMAX film Space Junk 3D and also served as chairman of a United States National Research Council committee to assess NASA's orbital debris programs.
(1996), Pierce Brosnan plays a science advisor named Donald Kessler, who gives the US President (Jack Nicholson) very bad advice on how to establish diplomatic relations with the Martians.