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Good morning all,
 I wanted to quickly get this off as with the different time zones I know some of you may not see this today but hopefully will be able to take advantage of this special show.... NASA TV to Host Perseid Meteor Shower Program, see below...  http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv  NASA TV will also air the Zvezda Service Module departure from the ISS at 6:19 a.m. EDT. NASA TV coverage of the undocking will begin at 6 a.m. Several hours after it undocks, the Progress will be deorbited by Russian flight controllers to burn up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. You can go to the subject link to see replays and for those in Europe, it will be great timing as hopefully you can share it with the kids....wishing you a wonderful day...we must always remember to do our best, enjoy everything we do, let those we care about most know, live in the present, smile, & have fun :) gabe

August 11, 2015
MEDIA ADVISORY M15-122
NASA TV to Host Perseid Meteor Shower Program
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Astronomer Fred Bruenjes recorded a series of many 30 second long exposures spanning about six hours on the night of Aug. 11 and early morning of Aug. 12, 2004 using a wide angle lens. Combining those frames which captured meteor flashes, he produced this dramatic view of the Perseids of summer. There are 51 Perseid meteors in the composite image, including one seen nearly head-on.
Credits: Fred Bruenjes
Thanks to a new moon, this week's Perseid meteor shower is expected to be one of the best in years, and NASA Television will bring viewers a front row seat.
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will broadcast a live program about this year's Perseid meteor shower from 10 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 12 to 2 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 13. The event will highlight the science behind the Perseids, as well as NASA research related to meteors and comets. The program will air on NASA TV<http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv> and NASA's UStream channel<http://www.ustream.tv/NASAHDTV>.
The Perseids have been observed for at least 2,000 years and are associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the sun once every 133 years. Every August, the Earth passes through a cloud of the comet's orbital debris. This debris field -- mostly created hundreds of years ago -- consists of bits of ice and dust shed from the comet which burn up in Earth's atmosphere to create one of the premier meteor showers of the year.
The best opportunity to see the Perseid meteor shower is during the dark, pre-dawn hours of Aug. 13. The Perseids streak across the sky from many directions, with theoretical rates as high as 100 per hour. The last time the Perseids peak coincided with a new moon was in 2007, making this one of the best potential viewings in years.
Special guests on the live NASA TV broadcast include meteor experts Bill Cooke, Danielle Moser and Rhiannon Blaauw, all of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, located at Marshall. They will provide on-air commentary, as well as answer questions online. Also scheduled to join the broadcast are experts from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, the American Meteor Society and others.
Anyone can join in the conversation by tweeting questions to @NASA_Marshall<https://twitter.com/NASA_Marshall> with the hashtag #askNASA. Social media users may also post questions to Marshall's Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/nasamarshallcenter> page by replying to the Aug. 12 Perseid Q-and-A post.
Watch a NASA ScienceCast video on the 2015 Perseid meteor shower here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/ScienceAtNASA For more information on NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, visit:  http://www.nasa.gov/offices/meo/home/  For the latest in "Watch the Sky" news, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/watchtheskies/

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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly took this photograph of a sunrise over the western United States and posted it to social media on Aug. 10, 2015. Kelly wrote, "#GoodMorning to those in the western #USA. Looks like there's a lot going on down there. #YearInSpace"

Space Station Cargo Ship Departure to Air on NASA TV
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The Russian Progress 58 cargo craft delivered several tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station on Feb. 17, 2015 and is set to undock and burn up in the Earth's atmosphere on re-entry Aug. 14, 2015.
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NASA Television will broadcast live the departure of an unpiloted Russian cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, Aug. 14.
ISS Progress 58 arrived at the orbiting laboratory in February and will undock from the rear port of the Zvezda Service Module at 6:19 a.m. EDT. NASA TV coverage of the undocking will begin at 6 a.m.
Several hours after it undocks, the Progress will be deorbited by Russian flight controllers to burn up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.
Progress 58 launched to the station on Feb. 17, and arrived six hours later carrying more than three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the station residents.
The undocking will clear the Zvezda docking port for the relocation of the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft on Aug. 28. Expedition 44 Commander Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineers Scott Kelly of NASA and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos will move their Soyuz from the Poisk module to the Zvezda docking port. The relocation will enable delivery of a new Soyuz to the station on Sept. 2, which will bring Kelly and Kornienko home next March to conclude their one-year mission.
The next Russian Progress resupply ship will launch to the station on Oct. 1.
For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv For more information about the International Space Station, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station

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