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Gabrielle, George F. (KSC-ISC-4011)[URS Federal Technical Services, Inc.] george.f.gabrielle at nasa.gov
Fri Jul 17 08:21:21 CDT 2015


Good morning all,
 What an amazing week for the space program....we need these kind of successes to let the public know there is still a very active space program as so many think it ended when the shuttle stopped flying...the Pluto mission is an amazing success, there was a wonderful launch of an Atlas V launch on Wed, then a Delta IV launch from KSC on the 22nd (for anyone in this area the launch is scheduled for 8PM) as well as a launch from Russia to the ISS on the 22nd.... wishing you a wonderful day and weekend ahead...we have to remember to always do our best, enjoy everything we do, live in the present, make each day special, let those we care about most know, smile & have fun! gabe




NASA to Release New Pluto Images, Science Findings at July 17 NASA TV Briefing
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This new image of an area on Pluto's largest moon Charon has a captivating feature -- a depression with a peak in the middle, shown here in the upper left corner of the inset. The image shows an area approximately 240 miles (390 kilometers) from top to bottom, including few visible craters. The image was taken at approximately 6:30 a.m. EDT on July 14, 2015, about 1.5 hours before closest approach to Pluto, from a range of 49,000 miles (79,000 kilometers).
Credits: NASA-JHUAPL-SwRI
NASA will hold a media briefing at 1 p.m. EDT Friday, July 17, to reveal new images of Pluto and discuss new science findings from Tuesday's historic flyby.
The briefing will be held in James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, located at 300 E St. SW in Washington. NASA Television and the agency's website will carry the briefing live.
Participants in the briefing will be:
*       Jim Green, director of Planetary Science at NASA Headquarters in Washington
*       Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado
*       Randy Gladstone, New Horizons co-investigator at SwRI in San Antonio
*       Jeffrey Moore, New Horizons co-investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California
*       Fran Bagenal, New Horizons co-investigator, University of Colorado, Boulder
For NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv  For more information on the New Horizons mission, including fact sheets, schedules, video and images, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons

NASA Television Coverage Set for Next International Space Station Crew Launch
The next three crew members bound for the International Space Station<http://www.nasa.gov/station> are set to launch Wednesday, July 22. NASA Television will provide coverage of the launch and the crew's arrival at the orbiting laboratory less than six hours later.
Kjell Lindgren<http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/lindgren-kn.html> of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:02 p.m. EDT (3:02 a.m. Thursday, July 23 in Baikonur). NASA TV coverage will begin at 4 p.m.
The trio will ride to space in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which will rendezvous with the space station and dock after four orbits of Earth. Docking to the space station's Rassvet module will take place at 10:46 p.m. NASA TV coverage of docking will begin at 10 p.m.
The crew will open the hatches between the Soyuz and the station around 12:25 a.m. Thursday, July 23. Expedition 44 Commander Gennady Padalka of Roscosmos, as well as Flight Engineers Scott Kelly of NASA and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos, will greet Lindgren, Kononenko and Yui. NASA TV hatch opening coverage begins at 11:45 p.m. Wednesday.
Lindgren, Kononenko and Yui will remain aboard the station until late December. Kelly and Kornienko, who have been aboard since March 27, will return to Earth in March 2016 at the end of their one-year mission. Padalka, who also has been aboard since March 27, will return to Earth in September, leaving Kelly in command of Expedition 45.
Together the six crew members will continue the several hundred experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science currently underway and scheduled to take place aboard humanity's only orbital outpost.
For the full schedule of prelaunch, launch and docking coverage, as well as NASA TV schedules and video streaming information visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv
Follow the space station crew members on social media at:
http://instagram.com/iss
and
http://www.twitter.com/Space_Station


STEREO-A Spacecraft Returns Data From the Far Side of the Sun
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This image of the sun was taken on July 15, 2015, with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager onboard NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory Ahead (STEREO-A) spacecraft, which collects images in several wavelengths of light that are invisible to the human eye. This image shows the sun in wavelengths of 171 angstroms, which are typically colorized in blue. STEREO-A has been on the far side of the sun since March 24<http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/stereo/return-of-the-stereo-a-spacecraft>, where it had to operate in safe mode, collecting and saving data from its radio instrument. The first images in over three months were received from STEREO-A on July 11.
The three-month safe mode period was necessary because of the geometry between Earth, the sun, and STEREO-A. STEREO-A orbits the sun as Earth does, but in a slightly smaller and faster orbit.  The orbit ensured that over the course of years, Earth and the spacecraft got out of sync, with STEREO-A ending up on the other side of the sun from Earth, where it could show us views of our star that we couldn't see from home. Though the sun only physically blocked STEREO-A from Earth's line of sight for a few days, STEREO-A was close enough to the sun-from our perspective -- that from March 24 until July 8, the sun interfered with STEREO-A's data transmission signal, making it impossible to interpret.
As STEREO-A kept orbiting, it eventually made its way far enough from the sun to come out of this transmission dark zone. In late June, the STEREO-A team began receiving status updates from the spacecraft, confirming that it had made it through its long safe-mode journey unharmed.
STEREO<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stereo/main/index.html> is the third mission in NASA's Solar Terrestrial Probes program (STP). The mission, launched in October 2006, has provided a unique and revolutionary view of the sun-Earth system. The two nearly identical observatories - one ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind - have traced the flow of energy and matter from the sun to Earth.


This was such an amazing milestone in the development of the space program: On July 17, 1975, the five explorers and the two craft -launched two days before - approached each other for docking.
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Apollo-Soyuz: An Orbital Partnership Begins
Most of us take it for granted today that American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts live and work together in Earth orbit. They've been doing it for years, first in the Shuttle-Mir program, and now on the International Space Station. This orbital cooperation has grown to include partners in the Canadian, European and Japanese space agencies, and will continue well into the next decade, as humanity learns about living off the home planet to prepare for longer journeys beyond Earth orbit.


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