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<div>Good morning all,</div>
<div> I hope you had a wonderful weekend and will look forward to the week ahead...of course, one day at a time... I know most schools are finished or will this week but I think my friends in Denmark may go through next week, not sure about Norway...hopefully,
some of you will still see this and, if possible, pass it along to the kids....try to remember July 14, that is when the New Horizon’s mission will reach Pluto...it is really an Historic Event as this will be the first time Pluto has been visited and the mission
has already shown many amazing features about Pluto and the Kuiper Belt (<font face="Arial" color="#404040">A </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">disk-shaped</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">region</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">
in </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">the</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">outer</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">solar</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">
</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">system,</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">containing</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">thousands</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">
of </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">small,</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">icy</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">celestial</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">
</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">bodies.</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">Comets</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">that</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">
</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">make</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">one</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">complete</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">
</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">orbit</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> of </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">the</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">sun</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">
in </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">less</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">than</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">200</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">
</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">years</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">come</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">from</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">
</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">this</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">area.</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">The</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">
</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">Kuiper</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">belt</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">lies</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">
</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">beyond</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">the</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">orbit</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">
of </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">Neptune</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">and</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">includes</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">
</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">Pluto</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">)</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">. </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">Maybe you can print this schedule for
the kids so they can follow it at home</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">.</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">..I know the kids are </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">fascinated</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> with Pluto </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">as
I get asked so many questions about it....</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">if you can find a few minutes, try to show the lids this short (under 3 minutes) video on the mission.... </font><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XyMzPnoUmBk"><font face="Arial" color="#0563C1"><u>https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XyMzPnoUmBk</u></font></a><font face="Arial" color="#404040">
</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">...I know they will find it very interesting....I wish you a wonderful day, we have to remember to always live in </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">the</font><font face="Arial" color="#404040"> </font><font face="Arial" color="#404040">present,
make each day special, let the people we care about most know, always do our best, enjoy everything we do, smile and have fun.....gabe</font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>New Horizons Will Shed More Light on Pluto Than Ever Before</b></span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The New Horizons mission will help us understand worlds at the edge of our solar system by making the first reconnaissance of the dwarf planet Pluto and by venturing deeper into the distant, mysterious Kuiper
Belt – a relic of solar system formation. Following a January 2006 launch, New Horizons is currently about 2.95 billion miles from home; the spacecraft is healthy and all systems are operating normally. APL designed, built, and operates the New Horizons spacecraft,
and manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. 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.
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XyMzPnoUmBk"><font color="#0563C1"><u>https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XyMzPnoUmBk</u></font></a> </span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>NASA Announces Television Coverage, Media Activities for Pluto Flyby </b></span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">NASA is inviting media to cover New Horizons’ historic Pluto flyby in mid-July, including the spacecraft’s closest approach to Pluto on July 14, from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)
in Laurel, Maryland, site of the mission operations center.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Media who wish to cover the events at APL must receive accreditation from the APL Public Affairs Office by June 30. Earlier registration is strongly encouraged, as space is very limited. To apply, and for more
information, visit:</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Media-Registration.php"><font color="#0563C1"><u>http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Media-Registration.php</u></font></a></span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">NASA also will provide comprehensive coverage on NASA Television, and the <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/"><font color="#0563C1"><u>agency’s website</u></font></a> and <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/socialmedia"><font color="#0563C1"><u>social
media</u></font></a> accounts as the spacecraft closes in on Pluto in the coming weeks.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The schedule for event coverage is subject to change, with daily updates posted online and in the New Horizons Media Center at APL. Highlights of the current schedule, all times EDT, include:</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b><u>June 16, 23 and 30<br>
</u></b><b>11:30 a.m.</b> -- Mission Updates</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Weekly pre-flyby updates on NASA TV will provide an overview of the New Horizons mission, the spacecraft and its suite of instruments, the July 14 flyby, and a summary of Pluto science to date.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b><u>July 7- 12 <br>
</u></b><b>11:30 a.m</b>. -- Final approach to Pluto; live daily mission updates on NASA TV</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b><u>July 12<br>
</u></b><b>1 - 5 p.m.</b> -- New Horizons Media Center opens at APL</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b><u>July 13<br>
</u></b><b>11 a.m.</b> <b>– noon</b> -- Media briefing: Mission Status and What to Expect. (live on NASA TV)</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>2:30 – 5:30 p.m.</b> -- Panels: APL’s Endeavors in Space and the latest on New Horizons (no NASA TV coverage)</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b><u>July 14<br>
</u></b><b>7:30 a.m.</b> – Media Briefing: Arrival at Pluto, Inside the Pluto System and New Horizons’ Perilous Path (live on NASA TV)</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">At 7:49 a.m., the New Horizons spacecraft will make history as flies past Pluto, after a journey of more than nine years and 3 billion miles. For much of the day the New Horizons spacecraft will be out of communication
with mission control as it gathers data on Pluto and its moons.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The moment of closest approach will be marked with a live NASA TV broadcast that includes a countdown, a discussion of images and data received thus far, and what’s expected next as New Horizons makes its way
past Pluto and potentially dangerous debris. Follow the path of the spacecraft in real time with a visualization of the actual trajectory data, using NASA’s <a href="http://eyes.nasa.gov/pluto"><font color="#0563C1"><u>Eyes on Pluto</u></font></a>. </span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>9 a.m. – noon </b>-- Interview Opportunities (no NASA TV coverage)</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Informal group briefings and availability for one-on-one interviews. An updated schedule will be posted in the New Horizons Media Center.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>Noon – 3 p.m. </b>– Panel Discussions (no NASA TV coverage)</span></font></div>
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<li>New Horizons mission overview and history</li><li>Pluto system discoveries on approach</li><li>Mariner 4 and Pluto: 50 years to the day</li></span></font>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>8 – 9:15 p.m.</b> -- NASA TV program, Phone Home, broadcast from APL Mission Control</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">NASA TV will share the suspenseful moments of this historic event with the public and museums around the world. The New Horizons spacecraft will send a preprogrammed signal after the close approach. The mission
team on Earth should receive the signal at about 9:02 p.m. When New Horizons “phones home,” there will be a celebration of its success and the anticipation of data to come over the days and months ahead. </span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>9:15 – 10 p.m.</b> -- Media Briefing: New Horizons Health and Mission Status (live on NASA TV)</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b><u>July 15 <br>
</u></b><b>Noon – 3 p.m.</b> -- Interview Opportunities (no NASA TV coverage)</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Informal group briefings and availability for one-on-one interviews. An updated schedule will be posted in the New Horizons Media Center.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>TBD </b>-- Media Briefing: Seeing Pluto in a New Light (live on NASA TV)</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Release of close-up images of Pluto’s surface and moons, along with initial science team reactions</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">New Horizons is the first mission to the Kuiper Belt, a gigantic zone of icy bodies and mysterious small objects orbiting beyond Neptune. This region also is known as the “third” zone of our solar system, beyond
the inner rocky planets and outer gas giants.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">APL designed, built and operates the New Horizons spacecraft, and manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio 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.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">For more information on the New Horizons mission, including fact sheets, schedules, video and images, visit: <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons"><font color="#0563C1"><u>http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons</u></font></a>
or <a href="http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/plutotoolkit.cfm"><font color="#0563C1"><u>http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/plutotoolkit.cfm</u></font></a></span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Follow the New Horizons mission on <a href="https://twitter.com/nasanewhorizons"><font color="#0563C1"><u>Twitter</u></font></a> and use the hashtag #PlutoFlyby to join the conversation. Live updates will be
available on the mission <a href="https://www.facebook.com/new.horizons1"><font color="#0563C1"><u>Facebook page</u></font></a>.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>NASA, University Researchers Discuss Search for Life in Solar System, Beyond</b></span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/m15-092.jpg"><img src="cid:4622418447592E4FA66C0CEA2F981CDC@mail.nasa.gov"> </a></span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">For more information about NASA’s astrobiology activities, visit: <a href="http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/"><font color="#0563C1"><b><u>http://astrobiology.nasa.gov</u></b></font></a></span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">For NASA’s activities in the solar system and beyond, visit: <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem"><font color="#0563C1"><b><u>http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem</u></b></font></a></span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>NASA Prepares for First Interplanetary CubeSats on Agency’s Next Mission to Mars</b></span></font></div>
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<div>NASA's two small MarCO CubeSats will be flying past Mars in 2016 just as NASA's next Mars lander, InSight, is descending through the Martian atmosphere and landing on the surface. MarCO, for Mars Cube One, will provide an experimental communications relay
to inform Earth quickly about the landing.</div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">When NASA launches its next mission on the journey to Mars – a stationary lander in 2016 – the flight will include two CubeSats. This will be the first time CubeSats have flown in deep space. If this flyby
demonstration is successful, the technology will provide NASA the ability to quickly transmit status information about the main spacecraft after it lands on Mars.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The twin communications-relay CubeSats, being built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California, constitute a technology demonstration called Mars Cube One (MarCO). CubeSats are a class
of spacecraft based on a standardized small size and modular use of off-the-shelf technologies. Many have been made by university students, and dozens have been launched into Earth orbit using extra payload mass available on launches of larger spacecraft.</span></font></div>
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<div>The full-scale mock-up of NASA's MarCO CubeSat held by Farah Alibay, a systems engineer for the technology demonstration, is dwarfed by the one-half-scale model of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter behind her.</div>
<div><b><i>Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech </i></b></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The basic CubeSat unit is a box roughly 4 inches (10 centimeters) square. Larger CubeSats are multiples of that unit. MarCO's design is a six-unit CubeSat – about the size of a briefcase -- with a stowed size
of about 14.4 inches (36.6 centimeters) by 9.5 inches (24.3 centimeters) by 4.6 inches (11.8 centimeters).</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">MarCO will launch in March 2016 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California on the same United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket as NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport
(InSight) lander. Insight is NASA’s first mission to understand the interior structure of the Red Planet. MarCO will fly by Mars while InSight is landing, in September 2016.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">“MarCO is an experimental capability that has been added to the InSight mission, but is not needed for mission success,” said Jim Green, director of NASA’s planetary science division at the agency’s headquarters
in Washington. “MarCO will fly independently to Mars."</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">During InSight’s entry, descent and landing (EDL) operations on Sept. 28, 2016, the lander will transmit information in the UHF radio band to NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) flying overhead. MRO will
forward EDL information to Earth using a radio frequency in the X band, but cannot simultaneously receive information over one band while transmitting on another. Confirmation of a successful landing could be received by the orbiter more than an hour before
it’s relayed to Earth.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">MarCO’s radio is about softball-size and provides both UHF (receive only) and X-band (receive and transmit) functions capable of immediately relaying information received over UHF.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The two CubeSats will separate from the Atlas V booster after launch and travel along their own trajectories to the Red Planet. After release from the launch vehicle, MarCO's first challenges are to deploy two
radio antennas and two solar panels. The high-gain, X-band antenna is a flat panel engineered to direct radio waves the way a parabolic dish antenna does. MarCO will be navigated to Mars independently of the InSight spacecraft, with its own course adjustments
on the way.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Ultimately, if the MarCO demonstration mission succeeds, it could allow for a “bring-your-own” communications relay option for use by future Mars missions in the critical few minutes between Martian atmospheric
entry and touchdown.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">By verifying CubeSats are a viable technology for interplanetary missions, and feasible on a short development timeline, this technology demonstration could lead to many other applications to explore and study
our solar system.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">JPL manages MarCO, InSight and MRO for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Technology suppliers for MarCO include: Blue Canyon Technologies of Boulder, Colorado, for the attitude-control system;
VACCO Industries of South El Monte, California, for the propulsion system; AstroDev of Ann Arbor, Michigan, for electronics; MMA Design LLC, also of Boulder, for solar arrays; and Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems Inc., a Terran Orbital Company in San Luis Obispo,
California, for the CubeSat dispenser system. </span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">For information about MarCO, visit:</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cubesat/missions/marco"><font color="#0563C1"><u>http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cubesat/missions/marco</u></font></a></span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">For information about InSight, visit:</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/insight"><font color="#0563C1"><u>http://www.nasa.gov/insight</u></font></a></span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Learn more about NASA’s journey to Mars at:</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/content/journey-to-mars-overview"><font color="#0563C1"><u>http://www.nasa.gov/content/journey-to-mars-overview</u></font></a></span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>View the Latest Edition of "This Week@NASA" (Published June 12, 2015)</b> </span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">View the latest "This Week@NASA” produced by NASA Television for features on agency news and activities. Stories in this program include:</span></font></div>
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<li>Tour Over -- Expedition 43 Returns Home</li><li>Climate Change Projections </li><li>Second Flight Test of Saucer-Shaped Vehicle</li><li>DAWN Images Bring Ceres to Life</li><li>Heavy Lift Crane Back in Place</li><li>Jack King, “the Voice of Launch Control,” Dies at 84</li></span></font>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> To watch this edition of "This Week@NASA" dated June 12, 2015, click on the image below:</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">You also may access this edition of “This Week@NASA” at: <a href="https://youtu.be/xv4ON7nvFO8"><font color="#0563C1"><u>https://youtu.be/xv4ON7nvFO8</u></font></a></span></font></div>
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