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Wed Jan 13 22:36:35 CST 2016

good morning all,
 I guess everything is back to norm and you have settled into the routine of learning….it amazes me in so many ways what you do day in and day out….now having to plan to meet deadlines in the next weeks and months….I hope to get to as many schools as possible, back to Norway & Denmark too…also Sweden…..trying to get the schedule so please the sooner you can let me know you would like me to come to your school, the easier it will be to plan the visit….. yesterday I participated in such a fun event, the four young girls... Mya, Jessie, Julianne, and Serena from Mabry Elementary in Tampa were able to speak with Gioia, the Director of Life Sciences at NASA about their experiment…they spoke for about an hour, the girls had great questions…Gioia was wonderful as she was so thorough with her answers and made it so much fun for the girls….also telling them how she became interested in science and encouraging them to pursue their goals…remember the spacewalk coverage starts at 6:30 a.m. (EST) on Friday, Jan. 15, with the spacewalk scheduled to begin at 7:55 a.m. http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv <http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv>  we have to remember to always do our best, enjoy everything we do, live in the present, make each day special, be appreciative of the good in our lives, let those we care about most know, smile & have fun! gabe

Tim Peake Prepares For Friday's Spacewalk <http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTYwMTEyLjUzNjc1MTYxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE2MDExMi41MzY3NTE2MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3MjQ5NDI5JmVtYWlsaWQ9Zm9yZGdhYmVAbmV0emVyby5jb20mdXNlcmlkPWZvcmRnYWJlQG5ldHplcm8uY29tJmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&&&100&&&http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/tim-peake-prepares-for-fridays-spacewalk?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery>
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European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) shared this photo taken aboard the International Space Station on Jan. 11, 2015, during preparations for a spacewalk, or extra-vehicular activity (EVA). Peake wrote, "Final suit fit check prior to Friday's EVA – feels just great! #Principia #spacewalk"

Jason-3 <https://blogs.nasa.gov/jason-3/>
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Spacecraft Batteries Charged <https://blogs.nasa.gov/jason-3/2016/01/13/spacecraft-batteries-charged/>
Posted on January 13, 2016 at 3:51 pm <https://blogs.nasa.gov/jason-3/2016/01/13/spacecraft-batteries-charged/> by Anna Heiney <https://blogs.nasa.gov/jason-3/author/aheiney/>.
At Vandenberg Air Force Base is California, the Jason-3 spacecraft batteries have been charged and the satellite is scheduled to be mated to the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket today. Other prelaunch preparations continue at Space Launch Complex 4 for a launch on Sunday, Jan. 17. The 30-second launch window opens at 10:42:18 a.m. PST. The Launch Readiness Review is scheduled to be held on Friday.

Jason-3 is an international mission led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to continue U.S.- European satellite measurements of the topography of the ocean surface. It will continue the ability to monitor and precisely measure global sea surface heights, monitor the intensification of tropical cyclones and support seasonal and coastal forecasts. Jason-3 data also will benefit fisheries management, marine industries and research into human impacts on the world’s oceans. The mission is planned to last at least three years, with a goal of five years.

Jason-3 is a four-agency international partnership consisting of NOAA, NASA, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, France’s space agency, and the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites. Thales Alenia of France built the spacecraft.

NASA's Juno Spacecraft Breaks Solar Power Distance Record
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Launching from Earth in 2011, the Juno spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter in 2016 to study the giant planet from an elliptical, polar orbit. Juno will repeatedly dive between the planet and its intense belts of charged particle radiation, coming only 5,000 kilometers (about 3,000 miles) from the cloud tops at closest approach.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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This graphic shows how NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter became the most distant solar-powered explorer and influenced the future of space exploration powered by the sun.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/
View the infographic <http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/infographic.view.php?id=11315>
NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter has broken the record to become humanity's most distant solar-powered emissary. The milestone occurred at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST, 19:00 UTC) on Wednesday, Jan. 13, when Juno was about 493 million miles (793 million kilometers) from the sun.

The previous record-holder was the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, whose orbit peaked out at the 492-million-mile (792-million-kilometer) mark in October 2012, during its approach to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

"Juno is all about pushing the edge of technology to help us learn about our origins," said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. "We use every known technique to see through Jupiter's clouds and reveal the secrets Jupiter holds of our solar system’s early history.  It just seems right that the sun is helping us learn about the origin of Jupiter and the other planets that orbit it."

Launched in 2011, Juno is the first solar-powered spacecraft designed to operate at such a great distance from the sun. That's why the surface area of solar panels required to generate adequate power is quite large. The four-ton Juno spacecraft carries three 30-foot-long (9-meter) solar arrays festooned with 18,698 individual solar cells. At Earth distance from the sun, the cells have the potential to generate approximately 14 kilowatts of electricity. But transport those same rectangles of silicon and gallium arsenide to a fifth rock from the sun distance, and it’s a powerfully different story.

"Jupiter is five times farther from the sun than Earth, and the sunlight that reaches that far out packs 25 times less punch," said Rick Nybakken, Juno's project manager from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "While our massive solar arrays will be generating only 500 watts when we are at Jupiter, Juno is very efficiently designed, and it will be more than enough to get the job done."

Prior to Juno, eight spacecraft have navigated the cold, harsh underlit realities of deep space as far out as Jupiter. All have used nuclear power sources to get their job done. Solar power is possible on Juno due to improved solar-cell performance, energy-efficient instruments and spacecraft, a mission design that can avoid Jupiter’s shadow, and a polar orbit that minimizes the total radiation. Juno’s maximum distance from the sun during its 16-month science mission will be about 517 million miles (832 million kilometers), an almost five percent increase in the record for solar-powered space vehicles.

"It is cool we got the record and that our dedicated team of engineers and scientists can chalk up another first in space exploration," said Bolton. "But the best is yet to come. We are achieving these records and venturing so far out for a reason -- to better understand the biggest world in our solar system and thereby better understand where we came from."

Juno will arrive at Jupiter on July 4 of this year. Over the next year the spacecraft will orbit the Jovian world 33 times, skimming to within 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) above the planet’s cloud tops every 14 days.  During the flybys, Juno will probe beneath the obscuring cloud cover of Jupiter and study Jupiter’s aurorae to learn more about the planet's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.

For more information about Juno visit: http://www.nasa.gov/juno <http://www.nasa.gov/juno> and
 http://missionjuno.swri.edu <http://missionjuno.swri.edu/>

click on the link below to see the highlights…..
SLS Monthly Highlights: December 2015 <http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTYwMTEzLjUzNzQ1OTUxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE2MDExMy41Mzc0NTk1MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3MjUwNjM5JmVtYWlsaWQ9Zm9yZGdhYmVAbmV0emVyby5jb20mdXNlcmlkPWZvcmRnYWJlQG5ldHplcm8uY29tJmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&&&100&&&http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/sls_highlights_december_2015_0.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery>

KSC Employee Update:
Inside KSC! <https://youtu.be/ZqzH0Gm6gnc>

 <https://youtu.be/ZqzH0Gm6gnc>Take a look at what 2016 offers for space exploration and NASA's Kennedy Space Center in this episode kicking off the new year of Inside KSC!

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