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Gabe Gabrielle gabe at educatemotivate.com
Tue Jan 10 23:23:23 CST 2017


Hi all,
 I think all schools are back this week…I know for those of you returning this week, everyone welcomes you back to reality :-) :-) I want take minute to tell all of the teachers how much you are appreciated, how I know you have the most challenging but also most rewarding “job” in the world….I am in awe of all you do, day to day, and on behalf of so many….Thank you, Thank You, Thank You…:-) I start back with school visits this week, Thursday night at Lawton Elementary, participating in a MATH night, 2-5th graders…I included the story about the kids speaking live with the ISS, I have attended one of these…it is simply amazing…I would really encourage all of you to try to do this with your school…you have nothing to lose by trying….what would you recommend your students do???? :-) :-) There has been allot of activity on the space station, with space walks and robotic replacement of batteries powered by the solar arrays…I know how little spare time you have but if you can find a few minutes you can go to NASATV http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv <http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv> on the 13th to see live coverage…Spacewalks start at 7am (Florida time, EST)…remember you can always go to the subject link for the latest updates... wishing you 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 and have fun... Gabe




Atlanta Students to Speak to NASA Astronaut on Space Station 
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NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough harvests fresh red romaine lettuce on the International Space Station as part of the Veggie investigation. The lettuce was soon consumed by crew members as part of their evening meal.
Credits: NASA
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Students at The Lovett School in Atlanta will have the opportunity to speak with a NASA astronaut living and working aboard the International Space Station at 9 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Jan. 10. The 20-minute, Earth-to-space call will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website. Expedition 50 Commander, and Lovett School alumnus, Shane Kimbrough will answer questions from sixth grade and 12th grade astronomy students at the school. Kimbrough launched to the space station on Oct. 19 and will live aboard until late February. Media interested in covering the event should contact Jen Sarginson at jennifer.sarginson at lovett.org <mailto:jennifer.sarginson at lovett.org>. The school is located at 4075 Paces Ferry Road, N.W., and the event will take place in the Hendrix-Chenault Theater. 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 agency Office of Education’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/stemonstation <http://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation>



                                                               Looking out the Cupola Module 

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Orbital ATK's Cygnus cargo craft is seen from the Cupola module windows aboard the International Space Station on Oct. 23, 2016.




Cygnus is Captured by the Canadarm2
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 ISS049e045140 (10/23/2016) --- Orbital ATK's Cygnus cargo spacecraft is captured using the Canadarm2 robotic arm on the International Space Station. Packed with more than 5,100 pounds of cargo and research equipment, the vehicle made Orbital ATK's fifth commercial resupply flight to the station.



NASA Assigns Upcoming Space Station Crew Members
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NASA astronaut Drew Feustel
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NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps
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NASA is assigning veteran astronaut Andrew Feustel <http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/feustel-aj.pdf> and first-flight astronaut Jeanette Epps <http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/epps-jj.pdf> to missions aboard the International Space Station in 2018.


Feustel will launch in March 2018 for his first long-duration mission, serving as a flight engineer on Expedition 55, and later as commander of Expedition 56. Epps will become the first African American space station crew member when she launches on her first spaceflight in May 2018. She’ll join Feustel as a flight engineer on Expedition 56, and remain on board for Expedition 57.


“Each space station crew brings something different to the table, and Drew and Jeanette both have a lot to offer,” said Chris Cassidy, chief of the Astronaut Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. “The space station will benefit from having them on board.”


A native of Lake Orion, Michigan, Feustel was selected as part of the 2000 astronaut class and, in 2009, flew on the space shuttle Atlantis for the final servicing mission of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. He made his first trip to the space station in 2011 as a member of the STS-134 crew on space shuttle Endeavour’s final mission.


Feustel has a bachelor’s degree in solid Earth sciences and a master’s degree in geophysics from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. In 1995, he completed his doctorate in geological sciences, with a specialization in seismology, from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.


Epps earned a bachelor’s degree in physics in 1992 at LeMoyne College in her hometown of Syracuse, New York. She went on to complete a master’s of science in 1994 and a doctorate in 2000 in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland.


While earning her doctorate, Epps was a NASA Graduate Student Researchers Project fellow, authoring several journal and conference articles on her research. After completing graduate school, she went on to work in a research laboratory for more than two years, co-authoring several patents, before being recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency. She spent seven years as a CIA technical intelligence officer before being selected as a member of the 2009 astronaut class.  


Feustel and Epps will join a long and distinguished line of astronauts who have crewed the International Space Station since November 2000. With the help of the more than 200 astronauts who have visited, the space station enables us to demonstrate new technologies and make research breakthroughs not possible on Earth. Its convergence of science, technology and human innovation provide a springboard to NASA's next giant leap in exploration, including the Journey to Mars <http://www.nasa.gov/journeytomars>.

Follow Jeanette Epps on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/Astro_Jeanette <http://www.twitter.com/Astro_Jeanette>
Andrew Feustel will post updates on social media at: http://twitter.com/space_station <http://twitter.com/space_station> and http://www.instagram.com/iss/ <http://www.instagram.com/iss/>
Get the latest Twitter updates from all NASA astronauts at: http://www.twitter.com/NASA_Astronauts <http://www.twitter.com/NASA_Astronauts>

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NASA Selects Two Missions to Explore the Early Solar System 
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(Left) An artist’s conception of the Lucy spacecraft flying by the Trojan Eurybates – one of the six diverse and scientifically important Trojans to be studied. Trojans are fossils of planet formation and so will supply important clues to the earliest history of the solar system. (Right) Psyche, the first mission to the metal world 16 Psyche will map features, structure, composition, and magnetic field, and examine a landscape unlike anything explored before. Psyche will teach us about the hidden cores of the Earth, Mars, Mercury and Venus.
Credits: SwRI and SSL/Peter Rubin
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NASA has selected two missions that have the potential to open new windows on one of the earliest eras in the history of our solar system – a time less than 10 million years after the birth of our sun. The missions, known as Lucy <http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2016/pdf/2061.pdf> and Psyche <https://sese.asu.edu/research/psyche>, were chosen from five finalists <https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-investigations-for-future-key-planetary-mission> and will proceed to mission formulation, with the goal of launching in 2021 and 2023, respectively. “Lucy will visit a target-rich environment of Jupiter’s mysterious Trojan asteroids, while Psyche will study a unique metal asteroid that’s never been visited before,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “This is what Discovery Program missions are all about – boldly going to places we’ve never been to enable groundbreaking science.”


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