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Gabe Gabrielle gabe at educatemotivate.com
Sun Oct 11 21:50:09 CDT 2015


Good morning all,
 I hope you had a wonderful weekend and will be looking forward to the week ahead, of course, one day at a time. Tomorrow I will be going to Keene’s Crossing Elementary School…going to the schools is my favorite thing to do, it still amazes me at how much fun I have at the schools as the kids are so much fun….sometimes, honestly, I feel like I’m in a make believe world when I am with them and we are having fun dreaming of being in space….in some ways maybe we are in a make believe world and I want them to think it or anything they choose….can be real… wishing you all a wonderful day…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



Pluto's Blue Sky

More: New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto <http://www.nasa.gov/nh/nh-finds-blue-skies-and-water-ice-on-pluto>
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Pluto's haze layer shows its blue color in this picture taken by the New Horizons Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). The high-altitude haze is thought to be similar in nature to that seen at Saturn’s moon Titan. The source of both hazes likely involves sunlight-initiated chemical reactions of nitrogen and methane, leading to relatively small, soot-like particles (called tholins) that grow as they settle toward the surface. This image was generated by software that combines information from blue, red and near-infrared images to replicate the color a human eye would perceive as closely as possible.


Morning Aurora From the Space Station
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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly <https://twitter.com/StationCDRKelly/status/651725276498526209>) captured this photograph of the green lights of the aurora from the International Space Station on Oct. 7, 2015. Sharing with his social media followers, Kelly wrote, "The daily morning dose of #aurora to help wake you up. #GoodMorning from @Space_Station! #YearInSpace"

Image Credit: NASA



Oct. 5, 1984, Launch of History-Making STS-41G Mission
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A Florida dawn scene on Oct. 5, 1984 forms the backdrop for the climbing Space Shuttle Challenger, its two solid rocket boosters and external fuel tank, launched on the eight-day STS-41G <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-41G.html> mission. The scene was photographed by astronaut Paul J. Weitz, who was piloting the Shuttle training aircraft (STA).

Crewed by Robert L. Crippen, Commander; Jon A. McBride, Pilot; Mission Specialists Kathryn D. Sullivan (now NOAA administrator), Sally K. Ride, David C. Leestma and Payload Specialists Marc Garneau of the Canadian Space Agency and Paul D. Scully-Power, the mission’s objectives included the deployment of the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite and the demonstration of the Orbital Refueling System by Sullivan and Leestma during a spacewalk.

On this mission, Sullivan became the first U.S. woman to perform a spacewalk <http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/astronaut-kathryn-sullivan-on-oct-11-1984-spacewalk>. Marc Garneau became the first Canadian astronaut to fly to space. The shuttle's crew of seven was the largest ever to fly on a single spacecraft at that time, and STS-41G was the first flight to include two female astronauts <http://www.nasa.gov/topics/people/galleries/ride_15.html>. STS-41G completed 132 orbits of the Earth in 197.5 hours, before landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on Oct. 13.




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