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Gabrielle, George F. (KSC-ISC-4011)[URS Federal Technical Services, Inc.] george.f.gabrielle at nasa.gov
Wed Feb 25 06:21:57 CST 2015


Good morning all,
 Wow, time goes so fast ...I hope you had a great weekend and are enjoying the week you are in, of course, one day at a time....the weekend was full on the ISS as two astronauts ventured out to do some modifications for the eventual arrival of a US ship taking Astronauts to the ISS...there is another spacewalk planned for today....I know your school days are so full but if you can find some time to go to NASA TV, maybe show the kids a little of what the astronauts are doing, it should be both fun and educational for all... http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html  Tomorrow I will be visiting MILA Elementary  School, which is my favorite thing to do...it is so much fun to interface with the kids as they bring so much joy & enthusiasm to the space program....they are the future and if we can get them excited about space now... I know there are always future astronauts at every presentation....I also want to thank a very special young friend, Holley, who I was able to spend a little  time with, she is such an avid fan of the space program and one day may venture to Mars, thank you for your wonderful card Holley...I will keep it forever...wishing you all a wonderful day.....we have to remember to always do our best, enjoy everything we do, make each day special, live in the present, smile & have fun! Gabe
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LIVE: Wilmore, Virts to Make Second Spacewalk
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Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineer Terry Virts will venture outside the International Space Station at 7:10 a.m. EST. The 6 1/2 hour spacewalk is the second of three excursions to prepare cables for new docking ports that will allow future crews launching from Florida on U.S. commercial spacecraft to dock to the space station. They also will make other preparations for a reconfiguration of the space station in advance of the arrival of private crewed


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Curiosity Self-Portrait at 'Mojave' Site on Mount Sharp
This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the "Mojave" site, where its drill collected the mission's second taste of Mount Sharp.
The scene combines dozens of images taken during January 2015 by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera at the end of the rover's robotic arm. The pale "Pahrump Hills" outcrop surrounds the rover, and the upper portion of Mount Sharp is visible on the horizon. Darker ground at upper right and lower left holds ripples of wind-blown sand and dust.
An annotated version, Fig. A<http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA19142>, labels several of the sites Curiosity has investigated during three passes up the Pahrump Hills outcrop examining the outcrop at increasing levels of detail. The rover used its sample-collecting drill at "Confidence Hills" as well as at Mojave, and in late February was assessing "Telegraph Peak" as a third drilling site.
The view does not include the rover's robotic arm. Wrist motions and turret rotations on the arm allowed MAHLI to acquire the mosaic's component images. The arm was positioned out of the shot in the images, or portions of images, that were used in this mosaic. This process was used previously in acquiring and assembling Curiosity self-portraits taken at sample-collection sites "Rocknest" (http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16468), "John Klein" (http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16937) and "Windjana" (http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18390).
Curiosity used its drill to collect a sample of rock powder from target "Mojave 2" at this site on Jan. 31, 2015. The full-depth, sample-collection hole and the shallower preparation test hole beside it are visible in front of the rover in this self-portrait, and in more detail at http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19115 . The Mojave site is in the "Pink Cliffs" portion of the Pahrump Hills outcrop. The outcrop is an exposure of the Murray formation, which forms the basal geological layer of Mount Sharp. Views of Pahrump Hills from other angles are at http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19039 and the inset at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=6968 .
The frames showing the rover in this mosaic were taken during the 868th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Jan. 14, 2015). Additional frames around the edges to extend the amount of terrain included in the scene were taken on Sol 882 (Jan. 29, 2015). The frames showing the drill holes were taken on Sol 884 (Jan. 31, 2015).
For scale, the rover's wheels are 20 inches (50 centimeters) in diameter and about 16 inches (40 centimeters) wide. The drilled holes in the rock are 0.63 inch (1.6 centimeters) in diameter.
MAHLI was built by Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project's Curiosity rover.
More information about Curiosity is online at http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/.

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Texas Has New Big, Bright Webb Telescope STTARS
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A big, bright James Webb Space Telescope "STTARS" is now deep in the heart of Texas. The Space Telescope Transporter for Air Road and Sea (STTARS) is a giant shipping container carrying a test model of part of the Webb telescope, the "Pathfinder Backplane." To ensure the telescope will operate at its frigid destination 1 million miles out in space, it must complete cryogenic tests in Chamber A at Johnson Space Center, the same vacuum chamber where Apollo spacecraft were tested.

NASA Briefing to Discuss First Spacecraft Arrival at a Dwarf Planet
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This artist's concept shows NASA's Dawn spacecraft heading toward the dwarf planet Ceres.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will host a briefing at noon EST (9 a.m. PST) Monday, March 2, to discuss the March 6 arrival of the agency's Dawn spacecraft at the dwarf planet Ceres. The news briefing, held at JPL's von Karman Auditorium at 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, California, will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website.
Ceres, located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is the largest unexplored world of the inner solar system. Dawn will not only be the first spacecraft to reach a dwarf planet, it will be the first spacecraft ever to orbit two different worlds in deep space.
Dawn was the first spacecraft to orbit a body in the main asteroid belt when it explored the giant asteroid Vesta from 2011 to 2012.
Participants in the news conference will be:
*       Jim Green, director, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington
*       Robert Mase, Dawn project manager, JPL
*       Carol Raymond, Dawn deputy principal investigator, JPL
To arrange access to attend in person or to obtain a telephone connection, reporters must contact Gina Fontes at 818-354-5011 or georgina.d.fontes at jpl.nasa.gov<mailto:georgina.d.fontes at jpl.nasa.gov> no later than 3 p.m. EST (noon PST) on Friday, Feb. 27, and provide their media affiliation.
For NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv
The briefing will also be streamed live on Ustream at:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2
For information about NASA's Dawn mission, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/dawn


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