[Spacetalk] tusen takk Norway & mange tak Denmark

Gabe Gabrielle gabe at educatemotivate.com
Fri Nov 30 10:44:30 CST 2018


Good morning all,

 I returned from Norway and Denmark late Thursday. It was awesome…the kids in both countries are wonderful…this was my 7th visit to Norway and 3rd to Denmark. Everyone in both counties has been so supportive, so kind…so many help me and are get the kids psyched for the presentation….I spoke with over 2,000 students… after an evening presentation with university students a group of us went to dinner and watched the landing of InSight on Mars…

I hope you were able to see it as well as share it with the kids…it was an amazing accomplishment….a 7 month mission…culminating with a very tricky entry through Mars’ atmosphere and then landing….for those who watched it gives us an indication of what it will be like when people try to go to Mars…being aware, once there, they will have to stay for 23 months before the planets are close enough to return. 

While InSight has been the primary focus there have also been supply ships to the International Space Station and in December and crew will head to the ISS...which is critical on keeping humans on the ISS…remember the last crew launched to the ISS had a major malfunction destroying the rocker, creating a ballistic reentry of the crew…thankfully with no injuries…the current crew must return Jan 5th, if this launch is not successful it will be the first time in over 18 yers there have not been human presence on the ISS…

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…:-) :-) love ya, Gabe

  tusen takk Norway & mange tak Denmark for two amazing weeks….

at dinner, while watching InSight...


What's Next for NASA's New Mars Lander? <http://click.emails.purch.com/?qs=8214dedf7a53a3409c1483207ec178dde0a163b6f44665ce51b1674772081d95c98be4a24a607d9cd638d910ec620220fe31080a54298355891eb6ccb47ab4f6>

https://www.space.com/42541-mars-insight-lander-success.html?utm_source=sdc-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20181127-sdc

A diagram of NASA's InSight Mars lander and its science instruments to look inside the Red Planet.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech - Adrian Mann/Tobias Roetsch/Future Plc

NASA TV to Air Next International Space Station Crew Launch, Docking

 <https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/45924436172_6522365898_k.jpg>
In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 58 crew members Anne McClain of NASA (left), Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos (center) and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (right) pose for pictures Nov. 20 in front of their Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft.
Credits: NASA/Victor Zelentsov
Three space travelers, including two astronauts on their first flight, are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station <http://www.nasa.gov/station> on Monday, Dec. 3 for a six-and-a-half month mission. Live coverage will air on NASA Television and the agency’s website <https://www.nasa.gov/live>. At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Anne McClain <https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/anne-c-mcclain> of NASA, David Saint-Jacquesof the Canadian Space Agency, and Oleg Kononenkoof Roscosmos are preparing to launch aboard the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft Dec. 3 at 6:31 a.m. EST (5:31 p.m. Kazakhstan time). Following a six-hour journey making four orbits of Earth, the crew will dock the Soyuz to the station’s Poisk module at 12:35 p.m. to begin their mission on the orbital laboratory. It will be the first flight for both McClain and Saint-Jacques and the fourth for Kononenko. Less than two hours after docking, hatches between the Soyuz and the station will open, and the current crew, Expedition 57 Commander Alexander Gerst <https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Astronauts/Alexander_Gerst> of ESA (European Space Agency), NASA Flight Engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor <https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/serena-m-aunon-chancellor> and Roscosmos Flight Engineer Sergey Prokopyev <http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=201>, who have been in orbit since June, will greet them. Kononenko, McClain and Saint-Jacques will officially become the Expedition 58 crew when Gerst, Aunon-Chancellor and Prokopyev depart the station for home Dec. 20. Coverage of the Expedition crew’s launch and docking activities are as follow (all times EST):

Monday, Dec. 3
5:30 a.m. – Soyuz MS-11 launch coverage (launch at 6:31 a.m.)
11:45 a.m. – Docking coverage (docking scheduled for 12:35 p.m.)
1:45 p.m. – Hatch opening (expected at about 2:35 p.m.) and welcome coverage
A full complement of video of the crew’s pre-launch activities <https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/schedule.html> in Baikonur will air on NASA TV in the days preceding launch beginning on Tuesday, Nov. 27. The crew members will continue work on hundreds of experiments <https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html> in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science aboard the International Space Station, humanity’s only permanently occupied microgravity laboratory. NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have worked closely with Russian space officials and station program partner Roscosmos to move forward on plans to launch the crew, completing a series of reviews including the station program’s Flight Readiness Review. Station program officials will continue to follow the usual prelaunch process with Roscosmos to ensure the safety of the crew during its upcoming launch. McClain and Saint-Jacques also expressed confidence in the reliability of the Soyuz rocket and the partners’ efforts for a successful launch. Get breaking news, images and features from the station on Instagram and Twitter at: http://instagram.com/iss <http://instagram.com/iss> and http://www.twitter.com/Space_Station <http://www.twitter.com/Space_Station>

Epic Crash of Neutron Stars Creates 'Hypermassive Magnetar' <http://click.emails.purch.com/?qs=6a2ebfe7b062e2743f2b1ac3bc7047ac50958633f909dd70b43df19e294dfaa76cd9dfcd639ee8c53444118be865872ed53d9296226521575499b428b2759320>

An artist's illustration of two merging neutron stars. Astronomers spotted gravitational waves and light emitted by such an event in August 2017.
Credit: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
The historic neutron-star crash that astronomers observed last year didn't generate a black hole after all, at least not initially, a recent study suggests. In October 2017, researchers announced that they had detected both light and gravitational waves — the ripples in space-time first predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago — emanating from the merger of two superdense stellar corpses <https://www.space.com/38469-gravitational-waves-from-neutron-stars-discovery-ligo.html> known as neutron stars. This epic collision — called GW170817, because it was first spotted on Aug. 17, 2017 — marked the beginning of the era of "multimessenger astrophysics," astronomers said. This term refers to the study of a cosmic object or phenomenon using at least two different types of signals. [Neutron-Star Crash: A Gravitational Waves Discovery in Pictures <https://www.space.com/38472-neutron-star-crash-gravitational-waves-discovery-pictures.html>]


Voyager 2 Creeps Closer to the Edge of the Solar System <http://click.emails.purch.com/?qs=6a2ebfe7b062e2746fc38f05bccf28f5efeb5187207af31fa6109a90fe56693f692e66baf5227477dfd03c16a847206563d82cf4d0988a7ca9b3fccf2fe402e6>

An artist's depiction of the Voyager 2 probe traveling through our solar system.

Going, going — nope, it's still just going, NASA says of its Voyager 2 probe, which the agency realized was approaching the edge of the solar system back in early October <https://www.space.com/42040-voyager-2-approaching-solar-system-edge.html>. In a statement <https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2018/11/14/excitement-increases-as-voyager-2-sees-a-decrease-in-heliospheric-particles/> released yesterday (Nov. 14), NASA shared additional data from the probe that gives engineers a sense of where the spacecraft currently is in relation to the solar system. The Voyager 2 probe <https://www.space.com/17693-voyager-2.html>, which launched in 1977, swung past the gas giants of our solar system, making this spacecraft the only device to gather detailed data about Uranus and Neptune. Then, its mission complete, Voyager 2 barrelled on, out toward the edge of our solar system.








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