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Good morning all,
 I want to quickly get this to you as I wanted to do it yesterday…..so a day late but HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY to all of you….you do so much to make the planet such a better place…..no matter what you do….moms, teachers. engineers, waitresses (it seems most of you have done this at one time or another…tough job)…nurses, flight attendants, lawyers, doctors….. so many single moms too…and of course, the easiest one….wife. significant other, girlfriend…everyone, from me to you…you are appreciated so very much…..I have been so privileges to have girls as friends and have learned so much from you….also growing up with a twin sister and having a daughter has made me so well aware…and I say it often….life as guy is so much easier….in every way…..not to belittle any of the guys but I really wanted to wish the women well….I get many girls writing to me saying…I want to be an astronaut…I always encourage them to go for it…..I hope you will share these pictures with your class, if only for a few seconds…as I think it is wonderful for the girls….if any of you see the eclipse, let us know…have 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, keep things in perspective, smile and have fun! gabe

Celebrating International Women's Day
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In this April 8, 2010 photograph, STS-131 mission specialists Stephanie Wilson of NASA, Naoko Yamazaki of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger of NASA, and Expedition 23 flight engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson (top left) work at the robotics workstation on the International Space Station, in support of transfer operations using the station's Canadarm2 robotic arm to move cargo from the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module.

The STS-131 mission's seven-member crew launched aboard space shuttle Discovery on April 5 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, joining the six residents of the space station when the shuttle docked on April 7. The merging of the two crews marked the first time <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts131/launch/131mission_overview.html> four women were in space at the same time.

Looking Back: Astronaut Mae Jemison Suits Up For Launch

On Sept. 12, 1992, launch day of the STS-47 Spacelab-J <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-47.html> mission on space shuttle Endeavour, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison <http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/jemison-mc.html> waits as her suit technician, Sharon McDougle, performs a unpressurized and pressurized leak check on her spacesuit at the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center. Dr. Jemison was the science mission specialist on the eight-day joint mission with Japan's space agency, which included 24 materials science and 20 life sciences experiments. She was the first African-American woman to fly in space. McDougle <http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/McDougleSC/McDougleSC_7-9-10.htm> said of her role as Dr. Jemison's suit tech, "I just wanted it to be a good experience for her. I’m sure it was probably a little scary for her being the first African-American woman to go into space, so I wanted to do my part in making it special for her too. And for me, because I was excited about being a part of history."

Image Credit: NASA

Last Updated: Feb. 18, 2016
Editor: Sarah Loff
NASA Celebrates 50 Years of Spacewalking

In this Feb. 7, 1984 photograph taken by his fellow crewmembers aboard the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41B mission, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II approaches his maximum distance from the vehicle. McCandless became the first astronaut to maneuver about in space untethered, during this first "field" tryout of a nitrogen-propelled, hand-controlled backpack device called the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).

For 50 years, NASA has been "suiting up <http://www.nasa.gov/suitup>" for spacewalking. The first American to conduct a spacewalk, astronaut Edward H. White II, floated into the vastness of space <http://www.nasa.gov/feature/gemini-iv-learning-to-walk-in-space> on the Gemini IV mission on June 3, 1965. For more than 20 minutes <http://www.nasa.gov/feature/stepping-into-the-void>, White maneuvered himself around the Gemini spacecraft as it traveled from over Hawaii to the Gulf of Mexico--making his orbital stroll 6,500 miles long. At the end of the 20-minute spacewalk, White was exuberant. "This is the greatest experience," he said. "It's just tremendous."

Since this historic first, NASA astronauts have performed spacewalks, or extravehicular activity (EVA) in NASA-speak, on the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs <http://www.nasa.gov/content/50-years-of-space-walking-infographic>. Astronauts have explored the lunar surface <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/images/apollo_image_12.html>, completed 82 spacewalks outside of the space shuttle <http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1850.html>, and 187 spacewalks, to date, outside the International Space Station <http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2350.html>. A total of 166 hours of spacewalks were carried out to service the Hubble Space Telescope <http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/hubble01.html>. Today, NASA is developing new advanced spacesuits for use by astronauts as they travel to new deep-space locations on the journey to Mars <http://www.nasa.gov/content/journey-to-mars-overview>. The next-generation suit will incorporate a number of technology advances to shorten preparation time, improve safety and boost astronaut capabilities during spacewalks and surface activities.

Image Gallery: 50 Years of Spacewalking <http://www.nasa.gov/suitup/spacewalks>
Image Credit: NASA

Last Updated: July 30, 2015
Editor: Sarah Loff
one of my favorite pictures
The International Space Station and the Docked Space Shuttle Endeavour
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ISS027-E-036716 (23 May 2011) -- This image of the International Space Station and the docked space shuttle Endeavour, flying at an altitude of approximately 220 miles, was taken by Expedition 27 crew member Paolo Nespoli from the Soyuz TMA-20 following its undocking on May 23, 2011 (USA time). The pictures taken by Nespoli are the first taken of a shuttle docked to the International Space Station from the perspective of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Onboard the Soyuz were Russian cosmonaut and Expedition 27 commander Dmitry Kondratyev; Nespoli, a European Space Agency astronaut; and NASA astronaut Cady Coleman. Coleman and Nespoli were both flight engineers. The three landed in Kazakhstan later that day, completing 159 days in space.

Image Credit: NASA/ESA

Last Updated: July 31, 2015
Editor: NASA Administrator

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