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Debora Valverde debora_valverde at hotmail.com
Wed Feb 27 09:27:02 CST 2019


Hi, Gabe!

Thanks again for your kind words about Brazil!

"my body and mind feel like l am still in Brazil" ... Hahahahahaha...You are almost a Brazilian!

Have a wonderful trip!

And you are right: your little new Brazilian buddy is lovely!So cute!

Hugs and smiles!

Debora

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Hi all,

 Greetings from the “air”….leaving London on my way to Trondheim, Norway for a 3 day visit… l hope to get this finished today but l can’t do much on the plane since they don’t have WiFi…l can’t open the links to access the pictures and stories l share…but at least get started…it seems strange to be thinking l am on my way to Norway when my body and mind feel like l am still in Brazil… realization will set in quickly when l step outside the terminal in Trondheim…:-) although the weather is not as bad as it could be…it was around 29 (88F) when l got on the plane in Orlando, waiting for the pilot to announce the weather once we are close to Trondheim…this will be my first time to Trondheim, having seen pictures, it looks beautiful ...l have plenty of warm clothes so it will still be fun…even though l was only home for a few days, l managed to do two presentations and see a beautiful Space X night launch with interesting payloads…one, an lsrael commercial vehicle going to the moon…this coming Saturday, Space X will attempt to launch a crew vehicle to the lSS, a major step in breaking the US dependence on Russia to transport our astronauts to and from the Space Station (at a cost of roughly $90 million a person). lt should be another spectacular launch as the it is 2:45am, East Coast Time…remember, if you miss the launch, you can see the replay on the subject link, as well as get the latest update on the Space Program.
Good morning from Trondheim….such a beautiful city…can’t wait to explore and see some of the sights…We have to remember to always do our best, enjoy everything we do, believe in ourselves, and let those we care about most know…hugs & smiles...     love ya, Gabe

New ‘NASA Science Live’ Program Premiers This Week
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NASA Science Live
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NASA invites you to take a behind-the-scenes look at how the agency explores Earth and outer space with a new monthly television series that premiers this week. The inaugural episode of “NASA Science Live” will air at 3 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 27, on NASA Television, the agency’s website<https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive>, Facebook Watch<https://www.facebook.com/NASAScienceLive/>, YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/user/ScienceAtNASA>, and Ustream<https://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv>. Viewers will be able to submit questions on social media using the hashtag #askNASA or by leaving a comment in the chat section on Facebook. From remote locations on Earth to the depths of outer space, join the conversation live each month to interact with NASA experts and watch as they reveal the mysteries of our solar system and beyond. “I am personally very excited about how this new show will highlight the interconnected nature of science from across the agency,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. “The series will find new ways to talk about science from various disciplines, missions and centers to show how each works together in order to achieve our exploration goals. ”This first episode - entitled “To the Moon, and Beyond” - will explore the how science conducted on the lunar surface in the past informs current missions studying the Moon and future plans to send science, robots and humans to our nearest celestial neighbor. For more information about the show, visit: https://go.nasa.gov/NASAScienceLive

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NASA Selects Mission to Study Space Weather from Space Station
[An image taken from the International Space Station shows orange swaths of airglow hovering in Earth’s atmosphere.]<https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/isslightshow_nasa_4928_nasa_jsc_esrs1.jpg>
An image taken from the International Space Station shows orange swaths of airglow hovering in Earth’s atmosphere. NASA’s new Atmospheric Waves Experiment will observe this airglow from a perch on the space station to help scientists understand, and ultimately improve forecasts of, space weather changes in the upper atmosphere.
Credits: NASA


NASA has selected a new mission that will help scientists understand and, ultimately, forecast the vast space weather system around our planet. Space weather is important  because it can have profound impacts – affecting technology and astronauts in space, disrupting radio communications and, at its most severe, overwhelming power grids. The new experiment will, for the first time, obtain global observations of an important driver of space weather in a dynamic region of Earth’s upper atmosphere that can cause interference with radio and GPS communications. The Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) mission will cost $42 million and is planned to launch in August 2022, attached to the exterior of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station. From its space station perch, AWE will focus on colorful bands of light in Earth’s atmosphere, called airglow, to determine what combination of forces drive space weather in the upper atmosphere. Researchers once thought that only the Sun’s constant outflow of ultraviolet light and particles, the solar wind, could affect the region. However, recently they have learned that solar variability is not enough to drive the changes observed, and Earth’s weather also must be having an effect. To help unravel that connection, AWE will investigate how waves in the lower atmosphere, caused by variations in the densities of different packets of air, impact the upper atmosphere. AWE is a Mission of Opportunity under NASA’s Heliophysics Explorers Program, which conducts focused scientific research and develops instrumentation to fill the scientific gaps between the agency’s larger missions. Since the 1958 launch of NASA’s first satellite Explorer 1, which discovered Earth’s radiation belts, the Explorers Program has supported more than 90 missions. The Uhuru<http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1970-107A> and Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)<http://science.nasa.gov/missions/cobe/> missions led to Nobel prizes for their investigators.  “The Explorers Program seeks innovative ideas for small and cost-constrained missions that can help unravel the mysteries of the universe and explore our place in it,” said Paul Hertz, NASA’s Director of Astrophysics. “This mission absolutely meets that standard with a creative and cost-effective mission to solve mysteries about Earth’s upper atmosphere.” AWE was selected for development based on its potential science value and the feasibility of its development plans. The mission is led by Michael Taylor at Utah State University in Logan and it is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. NASA also has selected the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) for a seven-month, $100,000 extended formulation study. SunRISE would be an array of six CubeSats operating like one large radio telescope. This proposed mission would investigate how giant space weather storms from the Sun, called solar particle storms, are accelerated and released into planetary space. While SunRISE has not yet demonstrated its readiness for the next phase of mission development, the proposed concept represents a compelling use of new NASA-developed technology. SunRISE is led by Justin Kasper at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The Explorers Program, the oldest continuous NASA program, is designed to provide frequent, low-cost access to space using principal investigator-led space science investigations relevant to the work of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in astrophysics and heliophysics. The program is managed by Goddard for the Science Mission Directorate, which conducts a wide variety of research and scientific exploration programs for Earth studies, space weather, the solar system and universe. For more information about the Explorers Program, visit: https://explorers.gsfc.nasa.gov

Weather Prediction: 80 Percent ‘Go’ for Saturday Launc<https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2019/02/26/weather-prediction-80-percent-go-for-saturday-launch/>h

[cid:2619089D-8B59-40ED-96F7-DCC184476507]<https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/wp-content/uploads/sites/230/2019/02/46907789141_0b37741017_o.jpg>SpaceX’s Crew Dragon at Launch Complex 39A

SpaceX is set to launch its Crew Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket, the first launch of a space system designed for humans built and operated by a commercial company through a public-private partnership, on a flight test to the International Space Station<http://www.nasa.gov/station> (ISS) at 2:49 a.m. EST on Saturday, March 2.

For a launch Saturday, meteorologists with the U.S. Air Force 45th Space Wing are predicting an 80 percent chance of favorable weather. Weak high pressure in advance of a front moving southeast into the area is expected during the launch window with a low probability for rain and weak surface winds and only slight concerns of any cumulus cloud or thick cloud rule violations during the instantaneous launch window.

More details about NASA’s coverage of the mission are available at: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-spacex-demo-1-briefings-events-and-broadcasts
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