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<div> I hope your week is going great...not sure if you were aware as I don’t know the coverage outside the local area but there was a cool launch last night of an Atlas V heavy lift rocket. It was not a NASA mission so NASA did not show it or even follow it...there
is an excellent site....spaceflightnow.com which has the latest on all the launches as well as great coverage of the missions...this is a picture from their site....if you haven’t you should include it with the nasa.gov site for a great source to share with
the kids. Also be sure to note the progress of the New Horizon’s journey to Pluto which will take place this summer...it’s been a 10 year mission and I know the kids are always excited about Pluto so hopefully you can share this wonderful adventure with them.
Wishing you all a very happy day...we have to be sure to remember to always do our best, enjoy everything we do, live in the present, keep things in perspective, be appreciative of the good in our lives, smile and have fun! Gabe</div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;"><b>NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Begins First Stages of Pluto Encounter </b></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:7.5pt;"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">NASA’s New Horizons is the first mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt of icy, rocky mini-worlds on the solar system’s outer frontier. This animation follows
the New Horizons spacecraft as it leaves Earth after its January 2006 launch, through a gravity-assist flyby of Jupiter in February 2007, to the encounter with Pluto and its moons in summer 2015.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently began its long-awaited, historic encounter with Pluto. The spacecraft is entering the first of several approach
phases that culminate July 14 with the first close-up flyby of the dwarf planet, 4.67 billion miles (7.5 billion kilometers) from Earth.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">“NASA first mission to distant Pluto will also be humankind’s first close up view of this cold, unexplored world in our solar system,” said Jim Green,
director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division at the agency’s Headquarters in Washington. “The New Horizons team worked very hard to prepare for this first phase, and they did it flawlessly.”</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">The fastest spacecraft when it was launched, New Horizons lifted off in January 2006. It awoke from its final hibernation period last month after a
voyage of more than 3 billion miles, and will soon pass close to Pluto, inside the orbits of its five known moons. In preparation </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:7.5pt;"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">Artist’s concept of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it passes Pluto and Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, in July 2015.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:7.5pt;"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"><b><i>Image Credit: NASA/JHU APL/SwRI/Steve Gribben</i></b></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;"> for the close encounter, the mission’s science, engineering and spacecraft operations teams configured the piano-sized probe for distant observations
of the Pluto system that start Sunday, Jan. 25 with a long-range photo shoot.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">The images captured by New Horizons’ telescopic Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) will give mission scientists a continually improving look at
the dynamics of Pluto’s moons. The images also will play a critical role in navigating the spacecraft as it covers the remaining 135 million miles (220 million kilometers) to Pluto. </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:7.5pt;"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">Timeline of the approach and departure phases — surrounding close approach on July 14, 2015 — of the New Horizons Pluto encounter.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">“We’ve completed the longest journey any spacecraft has flown from Earth to reach its primary target, and we are ready to begin exploring,” said Alan
Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">LORRI will take hundreds of pictures of Pluto over the next few months to refine current estimates of the distance between the spacecraft and the dwarf
planet. Though the Pluto system will resemble little more than bright dots in the camera’s view until May, mission navigators will use the data to design course-correction maneuvers to aim the spacecraft toward its target point this summer. The first such maneuver
could occur as early as March.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">“We need to refine our knowledge of where Pluto will be when New Horizons flies past it,” said Mark Holdridge, New Horizons encounter mission manager
at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. “The flyby timing also has to be exact, because the computer commands that will orient the spacecraft and point the science instruments are based on precisely knowing the time
we pass Pluto – which these images will help us determine.”</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">The “optical navigation” campaign that begins this month marks the first time pictures from New Horizons will be used to help pinpoint Pluto’s location.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">Throughout the first approach phase, which runs until spring, New Horizons will conduct a significant amount of additional science. Spacecraft instruments
will gather continuous data on the interplanetary environment where the planetary system orbits, including measurements of the high-energy particles streaming from the sun and dust-particle concentrations in the inner reaches of the Kuiper Belt. In addition
to Pluto, this area, the unexplored outer region of the solar system, potentially includes thousands of similar icy, rocky small planets.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">More intensive studies of Pluto begin in the spring, when the cameras and spectrometers aboard New Horizons will be able to provide image resolutions
higher than the most powerful telescopes on Earth. Eventually, the spacecraft will obtain images good enough to map Pluto and its moons more accurately than achieved by previous planetary reconnaissance missions.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">APL manages the New Horizons mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), headquartered
in San Antonio, is the principal investigator and leads the mission. SwRI leads the science team, payload operations, and encounter science planning. New Horizons is part of the New Frontiers Program managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville,
Alabama. APL designed, built and operates the spacecraft.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">For more information about the New Horizons mission, visit:</span></font></div>
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