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good morning all,

 I hope you are well and have been keeping up with all the exciting events on Mars…I think it is amazing to see how clear the videos and pictures are when we consider this is from another planet, 400 million kilometers (250 million miles) away…it has been an active week at KSC with 2 Space X launches and a ULA Atlas launch… go to the subject links for the latest updates...We have to stay positive and always be thankful… remembering to 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… :-) :-)   STAY SAFE, TAKE CARE, Love ya, Gabe

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover <https://www.facebook.com/NASAPersevere/?__cft__[0]=AZXsDdYIRWzHy_HCz5Wkc4_YOesxKnnfBi_MRR_hULQ5CXJJULBI9vcBWz9OHMr7ge8d1zZKeyT25s5-WQnWIsJHnNrJOdqkqzqfnzPl0h7VFRFthIZYAK-l9KaF2flf9FfmjYhQkj9DkcMBjbqlKxwxAR45L3RmFRx4MDnoDgSl3bCxuEPd7AxIJxJjA5dUpc-E5ov1Hyust_BkoEV-lwTL&__tn__=-UC%2CP-y-R> 

 <https://www.facebook.com/NASAPersevere/posts/288705282739323?__cft__[0]=AZXsDdYIRWzHy_HCz5Wkc4_YOesxKnnfBi_MRR_hULQ5CXJJULBI9vcBWz9OHMr7ge8d1zZKeyT25s5-WQnWIsJHnNrJOdqkqzqfnzPl0h7VFRFthIZYAK-l9KaF2flf9FfmjYhQkj9DkcMBjbqlKxwxAR45L3RmFRx4MDnoDgSl3bCxuEPd7AxIJxJjA5dUpc-E5ov1Hyust_BkoEV-lwTL&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-y-R> <https://www.facebook.com/NASAPersevere/posts/288705282739323?__cft__[0]=AZXsDdYIRWzHy_HCz5Wkc4_YOesxKnnfBi_MRR_hULQ5CXJJULBI9vcBWz9OHMr7ge8d1zZKeyT25s5-WQnWIsJHnNrJOdqkqzqfnzPl0h7VFRFthIZYAK-l9KaF2flf9FfmjYhQkj9DkcMBjbqlKxwxAR45L3RmFRx4MDnoDgSl3bCxuEPd7AxIJxJjA5dUpc-E5ov1Hyust_BkoEV-lwTL&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-y-R>
We’ve seen what the  <https://www.facebook.com/NASAPersevere/posts/288705282739323?__cft__[0]=AZXsDdYIRWzHy_HCz5Wkc4_YOesxKnnfBi_MRR_hULQ5CXJJULBI9vcBWz9OHMr7ge8d1zZKeyT25s5-WQnWIsJHnNrJOdqkqzqfnzPl0h7VFRFthIZYAK-l9KaF2flf9FfmjYhQkj9DkcMBjbqlKxwxAR45L3RmFRx4MDnoDgSl3bCxuEPd7AxIJxJjA5dUpc-E5ov1Hyust_BkoEV-lwTL&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-y-R>#MarsHelicopter <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/marshelicopter?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZXsDdYIRWzHy_HCz5Wkc4_YOesxKnnfBi_MRR_hULQ5CXJJULBI9vcBWz9OHMr7ge8d1zZKeyT25s5-WQnWIsJHnNrJOdqkqzqfnzPl0h7VFRFthIZYAK-l9KaF2flf9FfmjYhQkj9DkcMBjbqlKxwxAR45L3RmFRx4MDnoDgSl3bCxuEPd7AxIJxJjA5dUpc-E5ov1Hyust_BkoEV-lwTL&__tn__=*NK-y-R> can do – and now we can hear it. 
 Grab headphones and listen to the otherworldly hum of Ingenuity’s blades as it headed south to scout a new area on its fourth flight.
How I captured both sight and sound: go.nasa.gov/3b8sTWl <http://go.nasa.gov/3b8sTWl> 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/astrocarj1/?multi_permalinks=2856401597931982&notif_id=1620433802665039&notif_t=group_activity&ref=notif <https://www.facebook.com/groups/astrocarj1/?multi_permalinks=2856401597931982&notif_id=1620433802665039&notif_t=group_activity&ref=notif> 

Excelsior! The #MarsHelicopter <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/marshelicopter?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZVFhQJ4rVC2PJRGlw4P3UJppiGoSzDcudY29LDBPq_JsmjUsOgnR_R9qCGh-J9L-INX4KLwS5H69JdafvP-klSHpf_hWGgFQJqnbxFV93eGP12ox3t7lZ1PaPSsgc6vy-VGCf5JBMQ7zKNHFYY6q70TTfsBpvsL187KszeVSbyFNxmgyjJeB5eKbo4SJF-s_CCS5tU3R5bU4hAUhWIktCDn&__tn__=*NK*F> completed its 1st one-way trip and 5th flight on Mars. It touched down at its new location, kicking off a new demo phase where we test this new tech and see how it can aid future missions on Mars and other worlds. go.nasa.gov/ingenuity <http://go.nasa.gov/ingenuity>

https://www.facebook.com/360creator/photos/751877672136721 <https://www.facebook.com/360creator/photos/751877672136721> 

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Fifth Flight Lands in New Airfield
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completed its fifth flight with a one-way journey from Wright Brothers Field to a new airfield 423 feet (129 meters) to the south on May 7, 2021.
Have you seen the #MarsHelicopter <https://twitter.com/hashtag/MarsHelicopter?src=hashtag_click>’s latest flight? On May 7 Ingenuity climbed to a new height record of 33 feet and had a flight time of 108 seconds. Get the details: http://go.nasa.gov/3tyHVux <http://go.nasa.gov/3tyHVux>
https://twitter.com/NASA360/status/1391764360025026560?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email <https://twitter.com/NASA360/status/1391764360025026560?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw==&refsrc=email> 

Seeing NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Fly in 3D

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/seeing-nasa-s-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-fly-in-3d <https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/seeing-nasa-s-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-fly-in-3d> 

A new video gives viewers the sensation of standing on the Red Planet and seeing the action firsthand.

When NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took to the Martian skies on its third flight on April 25, the agency’s Perseverance rover was there to capture the historic moment. Now NASA engineers have rendered the flight in 3D, lending dramatic depth to the flight as the helicopter ascends, hovers, then zooms laterally off-screen before returning for a pinpoint landing. Seeing the sequence is a bit like standing on the Martian surface next to Perseverance and watching the flight firsthand. Located on the rover’s mast, or “head,” the zoomable dual-camera Mastcam-Z <https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8663/nasas-perseverance-rover-will-look-at-mars-through-these-eyes/> imager provided the view. Along with producing images that enable the public to follow the rover’s daily discoveries, the cameras provide key data to help engineers navigate and scientists choose interesting rocks to study. Justin Maki, an imaging scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, led the team that stitched the images into a video. The frames of the video were reprojected to optimize viewing in an anaglyph, or an image seen in 3D when viewed with color-filtered glasses (you can create your own 3D glasses <https://mars.nasa.gov/3d/create-glasses/> in a few minutes). Maki’s been creating 3D imaging of Mars since his days as a graduate student processing images from NASA’s Sojourner, the first Mars rover in 1997. But this is the first time he’s created actual 3D video of an aircraft flying on Mars. “The Mastcam-Z video capability was inherited from the Mars Science Laboratory MARDI (MArs Descent Imager) camera,” Maki said. “To be reusing this capability on a new mission by acquiring 3D video of a helicopter flying above the surface of Mars is just spectacular.” The videos of the helicopter are the most extensive 3D video yet from the Mastcam-Z team. The rover’s drivers and robotic-arm operators use a more sophisticated 3D system to understand exactly how things are positioned on Mars before planning the rover’s movements. But, according to Maki, team members have also been viewing still 3D images for rover-drive planning. “A helicopter flying on Mars opens a new era for Mars exploration. It’s a great demonstration of a new technology for exploration,” he added. “With each flight we open up more possibilities.”
More About Perseverance

Arizona State University in Tempe leads the operations of the Mastcam-Z instrument, working in collaboration with Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology <https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/>, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).  Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis. The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis <https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/> missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet. JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover. For more about Perseverance: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/ <http://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/> and nasa.gov/perseverance <http://nasa.gov/perseverance>

Atlas 5 rocket launches infrared missile detection satellite for U.S. Space Force
 <https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/05/18/atlas-5-rocket-launches-infrared-missile-detection-satellite-for-u-s-space-force/>
May 18, 2021

An upgraded, cyber-hardened $1 billion satellite to support the U.S. military’s missile defense systems rode into orbit from Cape Canaveral Tuesday at the tip of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.

> NASA solar probe becomes fastest object ever built as it 'touches the sun'
> The Parker Solar Probe was clocked at over 330,000 miles per hour as it zipped through the sun's outer atmosphere.
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> https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-solar-probe-becomes-fastest-object-ever-built-as-it-touches-the-sun/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&utm_content=algorithm&fbclid=IwAR1ore4EO3mMoNfcamxug59Z6O15JGoXuEOMNZMi4Xs9njzHeHurRSOW48Y <https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-solar-probe-becomes-fastest-object-ever-built-as-it-touches-the-sun/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&utm_content=algorithm&fbclid=IwAR1ore4EO3mMoNfcamxug59Z6O15JGoXuEOMNZMi4Xs9njzHeHurRSOW48Y>Nothing built by human hands has ever traveled faster than NASA's Parker Solar Probe, a diminutive, scorch-proof spacecraft about the size of a small car that is practically "touching the sun." <applewebdata://54944F1D-8B2E-4CFA-B4B2-809B2B904712/news/nasa-solar-probe-touches-the-sun-uncovers-solar-wind-mysteries/> In late April, it smashed two wild space records, dethroning the previous champion -- which also happened to be NASA's Parker Solar Probe -- and its journey is really just beginning.
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> The probe, which launched in August 2018 on a mission to study the sun <https://youtu.be/1g5wUEcTdbU>, has been flying ever closer to our solar system's furnace, using the planet Venus as a slingshot. On April 29, during its closest approach to the sun (known as "perihelion"), Parker was traveling at an almost unfathomable speed -- fast enough to circle the Earth 13 times in a single hour.
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> Fastest human-made object: 244,255 mph (393,044 km/h).
> Closest spacecraft to the sun: 11.6 million miles (18.6 million kilometers).
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> Fastest human-made object: 330,000 mph (532,000 km/h).
> Closest spacecraft to the sun: 6.5 million miles (10.4 million kilometers).
> Those are some strong records to hold, and this isn't the end, either. Parker should break its own record later in the year when it uses another Venus flyby to slingshot closer to the sun. Perihelion is expected to occur on Nov. 21.
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> The spacecraft is already revealing some of the sun's great mysteries. In December 2019, Parker's first batch of data was released in the journal Nature <applewebdata://54944F1D-8B2E-4CFA-B4B2-809B2B904712/news/nasa-solar-probe-touches-the-sun-uncovers-solar-wind-mysteries/>, pulling back the (incredibly bright) curtain on the charged particles and plasma dynamics in the sun's outer atmosphere.
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> Follow CNET's 2021 Space Calendar <https://www.cnet.com/features/space-calendar-2021-every-rocket-launch-mars-mission-meteor-shower-and-more/> to stay up to date with all the latest space news this year. You can even add it to your own Google Calendar. 
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Kayla Barron Joins NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 Mission to Space Station
 <https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq201907120010_large.jpeg>
NASA astronaut candidate Kayla Barron poses for a portrait after donning her spacesuit, Friday, July 12, 2019 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls
NASA has assigned Kayla Barron <https://www.nasa.gov/content/astronaut-kayla-barron> to serve as a mission specialist for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station, which is targeted to launch as early as Oct. 23.  This will be the first spaceflight for Barron, who became a NASA astronaut in January 2020 after completing two years of training. She will join NASA astronauts Raja Chari <https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/raja-chari/biography> and Tom Marshburn <https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/thomas-h-marshburn/biography>, as the mission’s commander and pilot, respectively, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer <https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/Matthias_Maurer>, who also will serve as a mission specialist. This will be the third crew rotation mission on SpaceX’s human space transportation system and its fourth flight with astronauts, including the Demo-2 test flight <https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-astronauts-launch-from-america-in-historic-test-flight-of-spacex-crew-dragon>, to the space station through NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Barron was born in Pocatello, Idaho, but considers Richland, Washington, her hometown. She earned a bachelor’s degree in systems engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in 2010. She earned a master’s degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Cambridge, in England, in 2011, as Gates Cambridge Scholar. Lt. Cmdr. Barron earned her submarine warfare officer qualification and deployed three times while serving aboard the USS Maine. At the time of her selection as an astronaut candidate in 2017, she was serving as the flag aide to the superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy. NASA previously assigned <https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-esa-choose-astronauts-for-spacex-crew-3-mission-to-space-station> Chari, Marshburn, and Maurer to the mission in December 2020. This will be the first spaceflight for Chari and Maurer. It will be the third spaceflight for Marshburn, who previously served as a crew member of the space shuttle STS-127 mission in 2009 and Expedition 34/35 aboard the space station, which concluded in 2013. When Barron, Chari, Marshburn, and Maurer arrive at the orbiting laboratory, they will become expedition crew members for the duration of their six-month science mission. The crew will have a slight overlap with the Crew-2 astronauts <https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-announces-astronauts-to-fly-on-spacex-crew-2-mission-to-space-station>, who arrived April 24. This will mark the second time commercial crew missions have overlapped on the station. The Crew-1 <https://www.nasa.gov/crew-1> astronauts, who ended their mission with a splashdown off the coast of Panama City, Florida, on Sunday, May 2, were aboard the station with the Crew-2 astronauts for a seven-day direct crew handover <https://www.nasa.gov/feature/top-things-to-know-about-space-station-crew-handovers>. Increasing the total number of astronauts aboard the station enables the agency to boost the number of science investigations conducted in the unique microgravity environment. Follow the Crew-3 astronauts on social media:

Kayla Barron: Instagram: @Astro_Kayla <https://www.instagram.com/astro_kayla/?hl=en> Facebook: NASA Astronaut Kayla Barron <https://www.facebook.com/astrokayla>
Raja Chari: Twitter: @Astro_Raja <https://twitter.com/Astro_Raja> Instagram: @Astro_Raja <https://www.instagram.com/astro_raja/> Facebook: NASA Astronaut Raja Chari <https://www.facebook.com/astrorajachari>
Tom Marshburn: Twitter: @AstroMarshburn <https://twitter.com/AstroMarshburn>
Matthias Maurer: Twitter: @Astro_Matthias <https://twitter.com/astro_matthias> Instagram: @ESAMatthiasMaurer <https://www.instagram.com/esamatthiasmaurer/> Facebook: Matthias Maurer <https://www.facebook.com/ESAMatthiasMaurer>
Find more information on NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at: https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew <https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew>

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