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Fri Feb 26 00:04:20 CST 2016

Good morning all,
 I hope you are having a wonderful week…I know many of the schools start state testing soon so you are very busy getting the kids prepared…It is such a difficult time for so many as it seems to be so critical to the kids getting on to the next grade….I am sure you will do everything possible to have the kids ready and hopefully it will go very well….a major milestone is next week as Astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian space agency complete an almost year long stay on the ISS…NASA TV will  carry much of the return activities…I hope you can share some of it with the kids….this is really an amazing story because of all the medical knowledge that will be gained... then used on long duration flights….Scott has an Identical twin brother… NASA has been monitoring both brothers to see the difference from being in space for almost year and being on earth….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, keep things in perspective, be thankful for the good in our lives, smile & have fun! Gabe

One-Year Crew Returns from Space Station March 1; Live Coverage on NASA TV 
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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko marked their 300th consecutive day aboard the International Space Station on Jan. 21, 2016. The pair will land March 1 after spending a total of 340 days in space.
Credits: NASA
NASA Television will provide complete coverage Tuesday, March 1, as three crew members depart the International Space Station, including NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos – the station’s first one-year crew <http://www.nasa.gov/oneyear>. NASA Television coverage will begin at 3:10 p.m. EST on Monday, Feb. 29, when Kelly hands over command of the station to fellow NASA astronaut Tim Kopra. Complete coverage is as follows:

Monday, Feb. 29

3:10 p.m. -- Change of command ceremony (Scott Kelly hands over space station command to Tim Kopra)
Tuesday, March 1
4:15 p.m. -- Farewell and hatch closure coverage; hatch closure scheduled at 4:40 p.m.
7:45 p.m. -- Undocking coverage; undocking scheduled at 8:05 p.m.
10:15 p.m. -- Deorbit burn and landing coverage; deorbit burn scheduled at 10:34 p.m., with landing at 11:27 p.m. (10:27 a.m. on March 2, Kazakhstan time)
Wednesday, March 2
1:30 a.m. -- Video file of hatch closure, undocking and landing activities
Twice the duration of a typical mission, Kelly and Kornienko’s station-record 340 days in space afforded researchers a rare opportunity to study the medical, physiological, and psychological and performance challenges astronauts face during long-duration spaceflight.
The science driving the one-year mission <http://www.nasa.gov/1ym>, critical to informing the agency’s Journey to Mars, began a year before Kelly or Kornienko floated into the space station. Biological samples were collected and assessments were performed in order to establish baselines. Comparison samples were taken throughout their stay in space and will continue for a year or more after their return to Earth. Kelly’s identical twin brother, former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, participated in parallel twin studies <http://www.nasa.gov/twins-study/> on Earth to provide scientists more bases for comparisons.
ISS Expedition 47 officially begins, under Kopra’s command, when the Soyuz carrying Kelly, Kornienko and Sergey Volkov undocks from the space station. Kopra, Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos and Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency), will operate the station as a three-person crew until the arrival of three new crew members in two weeks. NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka are scheduled to launch from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on March 18 EST.
For NASA TV streaming video and schedule, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv <http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv> For more information about the International Space Station, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station <http://www.nasa.gov/station>

Flying Through the Aurora's Green Fog
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We have seen pictures or the Auroras from the earth and from above…..can you imagine what it would be like to fly through them at 17,500 mph (28,000kph)

Expedition 46 flight engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency (ESA) shared a stunning image <https://twitter.com/astro_timpeake/status/702218781142204418> of a glowing aurora taken on Feb. 23, 2016, from the International Space Station. Peake wrote, "The @Space_Station just passed straight through a thick green fog of #aurora…eerie but very beautiful. #Principia” The dancing lights of the aurora provide spectacular views on the ground, but also capture the imagination of scientists who study incoming energy and particles from the sun. Aurora are one effect of such energetic particles, which can speed out from the sun both in a steady stream called the solar wind and due to giant eruptions known as coronal mass ejections or CMEs.

Three Times the Fun
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Three of Saturn's moons -- Tethys, Enceladus and Mimas -- are captured in this group photo from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Tethys (660 miles or 1,062 kilometers across) appears above the rings, while Enceladus (313 miles or 504 kilometers across) sits just below center. Mimas (246 miles or 396 kilometers across) hangs below and to the left of Enceladus. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 0.4 degrees above the ring plane. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Dec. 3, 2015. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 837,000 miles (1.35 million kilometers) from Enceladus, with an image scale of 5 miles (8 kilometers) per pixel. Tethys was approximately 1.2 million miles (1.9 million kilometers) away with an image scale of 7 miles (11 kilometers) per pixel.  Mimas was approximately 1.1 million miles (1.7 million kilometers) away with an image scale of 6 miles (10 kilometers) per pixel. The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov <http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/> and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini <http://www.nasa.gov/cassini> . The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org <http://ciclops.org/> .

Flowers Harvested on the Ground and in Space for Deep-Space Food Crop Research
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Chuck Spern, a project engineer with Vencore on the Engineering Services Contract, removes a base tray containing zinnias from a controlled environment chamber in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Zinnia plants from the Veggie ground control experiment at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida were harvested Feb. 11 in the same way that crew member Scott Kelly harvested the zinnias growing in the Veggie system aboard the International Space Station <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html> on Feb. 14—Valentine’s Day.

Flowering plants will help scientists learn more about growing crops for deep-space missions and NASA’s journey to Mars.

Commercial Crew Partner Boeing Tests Starliner Spacecraft <http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTYwMjE3LjU1MzA4MzYxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE2MDIxNy41NTMwODM2MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3MjY5MDAzJmVtYWlsaWQ9Zm9yZGdhYmVAbmV0emVyby5jb20mdXNlcmlkPWZvcmRnYWJlQG5ldHplcm8uY29tJmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&&&100&&&http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/commercial-crew-partner-boeing-tests-starliner-spacecraft?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery>
02/17/2016 10:22 AM EST

Engineers from NASA’s Langley Research Center and Boeing dropped a full-scale test article of the company’s CST-100 Starliner into Langley’s 20-foot-deep Hydro Impact Basin. Although the spacecraft is designed to land on land, Boeing is testing the Starliner’s systems in water to ensure astronaut safety in the unlikely event of an emergency.

NASA, UN Announce Final Winner of #whyspacematters Photo Competition <http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTYwMjIzLjU1NTYyMTcxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE2MDIyMy41NTU2MjE3MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3MjcyMDY2JmVtYWlsaWQ9Zm9yZGdhYmVAbmV0emVyby5jb20mdXNlcmlkPWZvcmRnYWJlQG5ldHplcm8uY29tJmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&&&100&&&http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-un-announce-final-winner-of-whyspacematters-photo-competition?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery>
02/23/2016 10:05 AM EST

As astronaut Scott Kelly’s one-year mission aboard the International Space Station draws to a close, NASA and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs are announcing the final winner of a global photography competition highlighting how the vantage point of space helps us better understand our home planet and provide benefits to humanity.

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