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Thu Mar 27 06:51:02 CDT 2014

Good morning all,
 I hope your week is going great and for those of you on spring break.....enjoy it because you sure earned it. Check out the "cooked" Soyuz capsule below....think of 3 astronauts crammed in this to return to earth from the ISS and their fiery ride through the atmosphere to land in the snow in Russia!!!! Also be sure to go to the subject link for excellent  videos, educational sites, and games for the kids....wishing you a wonderful day...we have to remember to always do our best, enjoy everything we do, live in the present, be appreciative of the good in our lives, smile & have fun...Gabe

Expedition 39 Crew Launches Aboard the Soyuz TMA-12M Rocket<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTQwMzI2LjMwNTMwNTkxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE0MDMyNi4zMDUzMDU5MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2ODUwNTE2JmVtYWlsaWQ9Z2VvcmdlLmdhYnJpZWxsZS0xQGtzYy5uYXNhLmdvdiZ1c2VyaWQ9Z2VvcmdlLmdhYnJpZWxsZS0xQGtzYy5uYXNhLmdvdiZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&&&100&&&http://www.nasa.gov/content/expedition-39-crew-launches-aboard-the-soyuz-tma-12m-rocket>

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The Soyuz TMA-12M rocket launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on  Wednesday, March 26, 2014 carrying Expedition 39 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Steven Swanson of NASA, and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos to the International Space Station. Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

Jupiter's Great Red Spot Viewed by Voyager I<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTQwMzE5LjMwMjgxNTgxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE0MDMxOS4zMDI4MTU4MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2ODQ3MjUzJmVtYWlsaWQ9Z2VvcmdlLmdhYnJpZWxsZS0xQGtzYy5uYXNhLmdvdiZ1c2VyaWQ9Z2VvcmdlLmdhYnJpZWxsZS0xQGtzYy5uYXNhLmdvdiZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&&&100&&&http://www.nasa.gov/content/jupiters-great-red-spot-viewed-by-voyager-i>

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At about 89,000 miles in diameter, Jupiter could swallow 1,000 Earths. It is the largest planet in the solar system and perhaps the most majestic. Vibrant bands of clouds carried by winds that can exceed 400 mph continuously circle the planet's atmosphere. Such winds sustain spinning anticyclones like the Great Red Spot -- a raging storm three and a half times the size of Earth located in Jupiter's southern hemisphere. In January and February 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft zoomed toward Jupiter, capturing hundreds of images during its approach, including this close-up of swirling clouds around Jupiter's Great Red Spot. This image was assembled from three black and white negatives. The observations revealed many unique features of the planet that are still being explored to this day. > View more images and watch a time-lapse of Jupiter assembled from images taken by the spacecraft Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Video and images courtesy of NASA/JPL

Cassini Spacecraft Uses "Pi Transfer" to Navigate Path Around Saturn<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTQwMzE0LjMwMTAzNjMxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE0MDMxNC4zMDEwMzYzMSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2ODQ0NjgzJmVtYWlsaWQ9Z2VvcmdlLmdhYnJpZWxsZS0xQGtzYy5uYXNhLmdvdiZ1c2VyaWQ9Z2VvcmdlLmdhYnJpZWxsZS0xQGtzYy5uYXNhLmdvdiZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&&&100&&&http://www.nasa.gov/content/cassini-spacecraft-uses-pi-transfer-to-navigate-path-around-saturn>

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On Jan. 19, 2007, the Cassini spacecraft took this view of Saturn and its rings -- the visible documentation of a technique called a "pi transfer" completed with a Titan flyby. A pi transfer uses the gravity of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, to alter the orbit of the Cassini spacecraft so it can gain different perspectives on Saturn and achieve a wide variety of science objectives. During a pi transfer, Cassini flies by Titan at opposite sides of its orbit about Saturn (i.e., Titan's orbital position differs by pi radians between the two flybys) and uses Titan's gravity to change its orbital perspective on the ringed planet. > Read more: 5 Ways NASA Uses Pi Taking in the rings in their entirety was the focus of this particular imaging sequence. Therefore, the camera exposure times were just right to capture the dark-side of its rings, but longer than that required to properly expose the globe of sunlit Saturn. Consequently, the sunlit half of the planet is overexposed. The view is a mosaic of 36 images -- that is, 12 separate sets of red, green and blue images -- taken over the course of about 2.5 hours, as Cassini scanned across the entire main ring system. This view looks toward the unlit side of the rings from about 40 degrees above the ring plane. The images in this natural-color view were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera at a distance of approximately 1.23 million kilometers (764,000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 70 kilometers (44 miles) per pixel. > Read more: Blinding Saturn Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Unpacking Cargo from Expedition 38 Soyuz Landing<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTQwMzExLjI5OTIyOTQxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE0MDMxMS4yOTkyMjk0MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2ODQyOTU0JmVtYWlsaWQ9Z2VvcmdlLmdhYnJpZWxsZS0xQGtzYy5uYXNhLmdvdiZ1c2VyaWQ9Z2VvcmdlLmdhYnJpZWxsZS0xQGtzYy5uYXNhLmdvdiZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&&&100&&&http://www.nasa.gov/content/unpacking-cargo-from-expedition-38-soyuz-landing>

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Engineers document cargo as it is unloaded from the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft after it landed with Expedition 38 Commander Oleg Kotov of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, and Flight Engineers: Mike Hopkins of NASA, and, Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy returned to Earth after five and a half months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 37 and 38 crews. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Space to Ground - 02/21/14<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTQwMzA0LjI5NTk1ODIxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE0MDMwNC4yOTU5NTgyMSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3OTc1MTk5JmVtYWlsaWQ9Z2VvcmdlLmdhYnJpZWxsZS0xQGtzYy5uYXNhLmdvdiZ1c2VyaWQ9Z2VvcmdlLmdhYnJpZWxsZS0xQGtzYy5uYXNhLmdvdiZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&&&100&&&http://www.nasa.gov/content/space-to-ground-022114> VO: Houston, station on space to ground. Josh  Byerly: Welcome to space to ground, your weekly look at what's happening on board the ISS.I'm Josh Byerly. Orbital Sciences' Cygnus completed its mission this week. The cargo craft was detached from the station on Tuesday and sent into a destructive re-entry into the atmosphere on Wednesday. This brings to a close the first official cargo flight to the station by Orbital Sciences.So the United States now has two commercial companies - Orbital and SpaceX - flying up to the ISS, along with international partner vehicles.

First Moments of a Solar Flare in Different Wavelengths of Light<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTQwMjI1LjI5MzEzNTMxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE0MDIyNS4yOTMxMzUzMSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3OTY5MjU1JmVtYWlsaWQ9Z2VvcmdlLmdhYnJpZWxsZS0xQGtzYy5uYXNhLmdvdiZ1c2VyaWQ9Z2VvcmdlLmdhYnJpZWxsZS0xQGtzYy5uYXNhLmdvdiZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&&&100&&&http://www.nasa.gov/content/first-moments-of-a-solar-flare-in-different-wavelengths-of-light>

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On Feb. 24, 2014, the sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:49 p.m. EST. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which keeps a constant watch on the sun, captured images of the event. These SDO images from 7:25 p.m. EST on Feb. 24 show the first moments of this X-class flare in different wavelengths of light -- seen as the bright spot that appears on the left limb of the sun. Hot solar material can be seen hovering above the active region in the sun's atmosphere, the corona. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation, appearing as giant flashes of light in the SDO images. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however -- when intense enough -- they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. > Read more Image Credit: NASA/SDO

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