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Good morning all,
 I hope everything is going well as many schools are in full speed while others have still not stared, I beige most will be back next week. So many interesting things happening, I hope you can find ways too her some of it with your class, even if just a minute or two…..the space walk tomorrow will have extensive coverage…the crew is also a male & female astronauts…it will be so good for the girls to see a female astronaut performing in space…then the kids can watch the undocking and return or a few minutes of it on Tuesday as it also has extensive coverage, whenever you can fit it in…and on the 8th is the launch of the mission to land on and return samples from, an asteroid…I included the picture of the kids talking with the astronauts on the ISS because maybe some of you would lie to do that for your school…it is an amazing experience and your school will get national coverage….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, and have fun...Gabe

Watch NASA TV Thursday for Live Spacewalk Coverage <https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2016/08/31/watch-nasa-tv-thursday-for-live-spacewalk-coverage/>
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Astronaut Kate Rubins is seen taking taking photographs with the Japanese Kibo lab module behind her during a spacewalk on Aug. 19.

Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA will begin a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station at about 8:10 a.m. EDT Thursday. NASA TV coverage will begin at 6:30 a.m.

Williams and Rubins will retract a thermal radiator that is part of the station’s cooling system. The radiator is a backup that had been deployed previously as part of an effort to fix an ammonia coolant leak. They’ll also tighten struts on a solar array joint, and install the first of several enhanced high-definition television cameras that will be used to monitor activities outside the station, including the comings and goings of visiting cargo and crew vehicles. Follow @space_station on Twitter and #spacewalk for updates online. For more information about the International Space Station, including current residents, visit: www.nasa.gov/station <http://www.nasa.gov/station>
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Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi gets the U.S. spacesuits ready that NASA astronauts Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins will wear Thursday during a spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV <http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv>
Three International Space Station crew members are scheduled to return to Earth on Tuesday, Sept. 6. NASA Television will provide coverage of their departure from the orbital outpost and return home, beginning at 9 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 6. Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams of NASA and Soyuz Commander Alexey Ovchinin and Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space agency Roscosmos will undock their Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft from the space station at 5:51 p.m. and land in Kazakhstan at 9:14 p.m. (7:14 a.m. Kazakhstan time Sept. 7.) Together, the Expedition 48 crew members contributed to hundreds of experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science aboard humanity’s only orbiting laboratory. Their return will wrap up 172 days in space for the crew since their launch in March 2016. Williams will return to Earth having accrued 534 days in space on his four missions dating back to 2000, the most days by any U.S. astronaut in history. NASA TV will air coverage of the departure and landing activities at the following dates and times: 

Tuesday, Sept. 6

9 a.m. - Replay of the traditional change of command ceremony in which Williams hands over station command to Anatoly Ivanishin (recorded on Sept. 5.)

2:15 p.m. - Farewell and hatch closure coverage (hatch closure scheduled at 2:30 p.m.).
5:30 p.m. - Undocking coverage (undocking scheduled at 5:51 p.m.).
8 p.m. - Deorbit burn and landing coverage (deorbit burn scheduled at 8:21 p.m., with landing at 9:14 p.m.)
Wednesday, Sept. 7
12 a.m. - Video File of hatch closure, undocking and landing activities.
12 p.m. - Video File of landing and post-landing activities and post-landing interview with Williams in Kazakhstan.
At the time of undocking, Expedition 49 will begin aboard the station under the command of Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos. Along with his crewmates Kate Rubins of NASA and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the three-person crew will operate the station for more than two weeks until the arrival of three new crew members. Shane Kimbrough of NASA and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch Sept. 23, U.S. time, from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Check out the full NASA TV schedule and video streaming information at: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv <http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv> Keep up with the International Space Station, and its research and crews, at: http://www.nasa.gov/station <http://www.nasa.gov/station> Get breaking news, images and features from the station on Instagram and Twitter: http://instagram.com/iss <http://instagram.com/iss> and http://www.twitter.com/Space_Station <http://www.twitter.com/Space_Station>  

Kentucky Students Talk Live with NASA Astronauts on Space Station
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Expedition 48 crew members Kate Rubins and Jeff Williams of NASA outfit spacesuits inside of the Quest airlock aboard the International Space Station in preparation for a spacewalk to install the first international docking adapter, the new docking port that will enable the future arrival of U.S. commercial crew spacecraft.
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Students in Hyden, Kentucky, will have the opportunity to speak with two NASA astronauts currently living and working aboard the International Space Station at 1:10 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 31. The 20-minute, Earth-to-space call will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website. Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Kate Rubins will answer questions from students of Leslie County High School at the Hazard Community & Technical College’s (HCTC) School of Bluegrass and Traditional Music in Hyden. Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky will kick-off the event, joined by NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, who returned from the space station June 18. Media interested in covering the event should contact Danielle Smoot at danielle.smoot at mail.house.gov <mailto:danielle.smoot at mail.house.gov> or 606-679-8346. The HCTC School of Bluegrass and Traditional Music is located at 108 Maple St. Williams launched to the space station March 18 and is scheduled to depart Sept. 6. Rubins launched July 6 and will return home in October. This in-flight education downlink is an integral component of the NASA Office of Education’s efforts to improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teaching and learning in the United States. Linking students directly to astronauts aboard the space station through the Education Office’s STEM on Station activity provides authentic, live experiences in space exploration, space study and the scientific components of space travel, while introducing the possibilities of life in space. For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv <http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv> For more information, videos and lesson plans highlighting research on the International Space Station, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/education/stemonstation <http://www.nasa.gov/education/stemonstation>

This Week in NASA History: Final Hubble Servicing Mission Launches -- May 11, 2009
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This week in 2009, the fifth and final space shuttle mission to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope launched. Space shuttle Atlantis and the crew of STS-125 delivered the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and Wide Field Camera 3 to the revolutionary observatory, which was designed, developed and constructed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. The NASA History Program documents and preserves NASA’s remarkable history through a variety of products -- photos, press kits, press releases, mission transcripts and administrators' speeches. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the History Program’s Web page <http://history.nasa.gov/program.html>.

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