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Sun Sep 20 21:11:26 CDT 2020

good evening all,

 I hope everyone is doing well as time continues to pass so quickly. I am sure there are so many adjustments with on line learning, class participation, distancing, masks, emailing, and I’m sure many other variables none of us could have ever imagined….I’ve always said teasing is the moist challenging job in the world but also, the most rewarding...Kennedy Space Center is still closed to non essential  personnel as concern for the virus remains high... all missions are still progressing as most are still supporting from home. It seems unlikely things will change the remainder of this year. 
we have to remember to always do our best, enjoy everything we do, believe in ourselves, and let those we care about most know (I always say this, we all need to take it to heart)…hugs & smiles...love ya, Gabe

Information for NG-14 Launch from Wallops on September 29: BE SURE TO REGISTER FOR VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION

What do radishes, waste systems, and contained fire experiments have in common? They’re launching aboard NASA’s Northrop Grumman 14th commercial resupply services mission on September 29. REGISTRATION <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nasas-northrop-grumman-14th-contract-resupply-mission-launch-registration-117312194933> is open to everyone for virtual participation. Let NASA know you’ll be watching launch and to receive any schedule updates, related activities, and access to curated resources.

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NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is the largest, most powerful rocket ever built. It will be the premier vehicle to transport astronauts, cargo, and scientific experiments to the Moon. Astronauts on SLS will travel 240,000 miles (400,000km) on their journey from Earth to the Moon. That’s equivalent to 10 trips around the Earth’s equator. It will take three days for astronauts to reach the Moon. That’s four times longer than the longest commercial flights in the world.
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SLS will not only deliver astronauts to the Moon, but also to Mars and Deep Space. It will usher America into the next generation of space exploration. 

NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins Available for Interviews Before Her Return to Space
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Astronaut Kate Rubins in the cupola
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins in front of the windows in the International Space Station’s cupola module during Expedition 49 in 2016.
Credits: NASA
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NASA astronaut and biologist Kate Rubins <http://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/kathleen-rubins/biography> is participating on Friday, Sept. 25, in a final round of media interviews before her October launch to the International Space Station <http://www.nasa.gov/station>, the second space mission of her NASA career. The satellite interviews, live from Star City, Russia, will air on NASA Television and the agency’s website <https://www.nasa.gov/live> from 7 to 8:30 a.m. EDT, preceded at 6:30 a.m. by video highlights of her previous spaceflight and training for her upcoming mission. To schedule an interview with Rubins, media must contact Sarah Volkman no later than 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23, at sarah.e.volkman at nasa.gov <mailto:sarah.e.volkman at nasa.gov> and tune into NASA TV’s Media Channel (NTV-3) during the event. Satellite tuning information is available at: http://go.nasa.gov/1pOWUhR <http://go.nasa.gov/1pOWUhR>
Rubins’ launch is planned for Oct. 14 aboard the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with her Expedition 63/64 crewmates, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov. The first person to sequence DNA in space <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/dna_sequencing> (during her 2016 mission), Rubins will work on a cardiovascular experiment that builds on an investigation <https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=1657> she completed during her first space mission and conduct research using the space station’s Cold Atom Lab <https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7396>. She’ll also be aboard the station for the arrival of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 <https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-spacex-invite-media-to-first-operational-commercial-crew-launch/> mission and Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 <https://www.nasa.gov/feature/boeing-s-starliner-makes-progress-ahead-of-flight-test-with-astronauts>. On Nov. 2, Rubins will celebrate with her crewmates the 20th anniversary of continuous human habitation of the space station – two decades of science and technology research and breakthroughs that are furthering America’s return to the Moon and human exploration of Mars <https://www.nasa.gov/specials/moon2mars/>. Follow Rubins and other NASA astronauts on Twitter <https://www.twitter.com/NASA_Astronauts>, Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/nasaastronauts/>, and Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/NASAAstronauts/>. Learn more about space station activities by following @space_station <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_space-5Fstation&d=DwMFAg&c=ApwzowJNAKKw3xye91w7BE1XMRKi2LN9kiMk5Csz9Zk&r=DjCOY7g3Ql3dG1aBogkWRnB4XogRnuoZFZAyoFHDGSI&m=UlZgIuaCd4HITjENPWaheYJMbPVdvm6sSKa0bWKZkeg&s=1o-zK-NROXPJctijRyp5s_jzqhem0-U-Biyzwm4BIpo&e=>, and @ISS_Research <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_ISS-5FResearch&d=DwMFAg&c=ApwzowJNAKKw3xye91w7BE1XMRKi2LN9kiMk5Csz9Zk&r=DjCOY7g3Ql3dG1aBogkWRnB4XogRnuoZFZAyoFHDGSI&m=UlZgIuaCd4HITjENPWaheYJMbPVdvm6sSKa0bWKZkeg&s=_nhAIjxxJ3mj8bd3N3WPLjOg_O0w4M1h0TiieNHOVaQ&e=> on Twitter, as well as the ISS Facebook <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.facebook.com_ISS&d=DwMGaQ&c=ApwzowJNAKKw3xye91w7BE1XMRKi2LN9kiMk5Csz9Zk&r=DjCOY7g3Ql3dG1aBogkWRnB4XogRnuoZFZAyoFHDGSI&m=cnmscJbsVdsCdcsGL_7w5DXEOVDxWnjbKq5QfxwllnQ&s=gf_LecYTrhfTYb0Bk3zz1l8eHTCWDW9UBle7dcWq1B0&e=> and ISS Instagram <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.instagram.com_ISS_&d=DwMGaQ&c=ApwzowJNAKKw3xye91w7BE1XMRKi2LN9kiMk5Csz9Zk&r=DjCOY7g3Ql3dG1aBogkWRnB4XogRnuoZFZAyoFHDGSI&m=cnmscJbsVdsCdcsGL_7w5DXEOVDxWnjbKq5QfxwllnQ&s=_MEZaY4Yy9o8d6tVPnrbyflOtoJnHcZRMf2DxUzPKPw&e=> accounts and the space station blog <https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/>.

NASA Missions Spy First Possible ‘Survivor’ Planet Hugging White Dwarf Star
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In this illustration, WD 1856 b, a potential Jupiter-size planet, orbits its much smaller host star, a dim white dwarf.
Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) <https://www.nasa.gov/tess-transiting-exoplanet-survey-satellite> and retired Spitzer Space Telescope <https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/main/index.html> has reported what may be the first intact planet found closely orbiting a white dwarf, the dense leftover of a Sun-like star, only 40% larger than Earth. The Jupiter-size object, called WD 1856 b, is about seven times larger than the white dwarf <https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/dwarfs2.html>, named WD 1856+534. It circles this stellar cinder every 34 hours, more than 60 times faster than Mercury orbits our Sun. “WD 1856 b somehow got very close to its white dwarf and managed to stay in one piece,” said Andrew Vanderburg, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The white dwarf creation process destroys nearby planets, and anything that later gets too close is  usually torn apart by the star’s immense gravity. We still have many questions about how WD 1856 b arrived at its current location without meeting one of those fates.” A paper about the system, led by Vanderburg and including several NASA co-authors, appears in the Sept. 17 issue of Nature and is now available online <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2713-y>. TESS monitors <https://www.nasa.gov/content/about-tess> large swaths of the sky, called sectors, for nearly a month at a time. This long gaze allows the satellite to find exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, by capturing changes in stellar brightness caused when a planet crosses in front of, or transits, its star. The satellite spotted WD 1856 b about 80 light-years away in the northern constellation Draco. It orbits a cool, quiet white dwarf that is roughly 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers) across, may be up to 10 billion years old, and is a distant member of a triple star system. When a Sun-like star runs out of fuel, it swells up to hundreds to thousands of times its original size, forming a cooler red giant <https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/life-and-death/chapter-6/> star. Eventually, it ejects its outer layers of gas, losing up to 80% of its mass. The remaining hot core becomes a white dwarf. Any nearby objects are typically engulfed and incinerated during this process, which in this system would have included WD 1856 b in its current orbit. Vanderburg and his colleagues estimate the possible planet must have originated at least 50 times farther away from its present location. 

Artist’s View of a Planet Where Liquid Water Might Exist

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A newly discovered, roughly Earth-sized planet orbiting our nearest neighboring star might be habitable, according to a team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's 3.6-meter telescope at La Silla, Chile.

 <https://astronomynow.com/2020/09/14/possible-evidence-found-for-life-on-venus/>
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