<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Good morning all,</span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> I hope you had a wonderful weekend and will be looking forward to the week ahead, of course, one day at a time. Tomorrow I will be going to Keene’s Crossing Elementary School…going to the schools is my favorite thing to do, it still amazes me at how much fun I have at the schools as the kids are so much fun….sometimes, honestly, I feel like I’m in a make believe world when I am with them and we are having fun dreaming of being in space….in some ways maybe we are in a make believe world and I want them to think it or anything they choose….can be real… wishing you all a wonderful day…we have to remember to always do our best, enjoy everything we do, live in the present, make each day special, let those we care about most know, smile & have fun…gabe</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div class="title-bar" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px;"><div class="title-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 560.25px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; font-size: 2.2em;">Pluto's Blue Sky</h1><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/nh/nh-finds-blue-skies-and-water-ice-on-pluto" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">More: New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto</a></div></div></div><div class="feature-image-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px -2em 2em;"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/blue_skies_on_pluto-final-2.png" data-bindattr-939="939" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><img class="feature-image" alt="Blue haze around Pluto." data-bindattr-940="940" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%;" apple-inline="yes" id="CD42491E-5220-4906-8BE9-05EB017C5969" height="1041" width="1041" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:2868A0FF-A264-49E5-BBF6-A8D0E22ACB58"></a></div><section id="ember931" class="opened collapsible ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">Pluto's haze layer shows its blue color in this picture taken by the New Horizons Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). The high-altitude haze is thought to be similar in nature to that seen at Saturn’s moon Titan. The source of both hazes likely involves sunlight-initiated chemical reactions of nitrogen and methane, leading to relatively small, soot-like particles (called tholins) that grow as they settle toward the surface. This image was generated by software that combines information from blue, red and near-infrared images to replicate the color a human eye would perceive as closely as possible.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="title-bar" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Titillium Web', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="title-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 560.25px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; font-size: 2.2em;">Morning Aurora From the Space Station</h1></div></div><div class="feature-image-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px -2em 2em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Titillium Web', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss045e048728.jpg" data-bindattr-933="933" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><img class="feature-image" alt="Aurora in early morning on Earth's horizon with city lights below and space station solar arrays above" data-bindattr-934="934" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%;" apple-inline="yes" id="B741D636-C61A-4F2E-81A7-1BD4525C55D8" height="693" width="1041" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:1144D88C-B516-4B0F-9AFB-3B36EAA271F6"></a></div><section id="ember925" class="opened collapsible ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Titillium Web', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (<a href="https://twitter.com/StationCDRKelly/status/651725276498526209" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">@StationCDRKelly</a>) captured this photograph of the green lights of the aurora from the International Space Station on Oct. 7, 2015. Sharing with his social media followers, Kelly wrote, "The daily morning dose of #aurora to help wake you up. #GoodMorning from @Space_Station! #YearInSpace"</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Image Credit: NASA</em></p></div></section></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><br class=""></p><div class=""><div class="title-bar" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px;"><div class="title-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 560.25px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; font-size: 2.2em;">Oct. 5, 1984, Launch of History-Making STS-41G Mission</h1></div></div><div class="feature-image-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px -2em 2em;"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/41g-90139.jpg" data-bindattr-941="941" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><img class="feature-image" alt="Shuttle Challenger flies above the clouds during a dawn launch, photographed from the air by a Shuttle training aircraft" data-bindattr-942="942" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%;" apple-inline="yes" id="21F0AAFD-1069-4187-94B9-CB9982E249F3" height="1037" width="1041" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:D276E8E5-038A-4375-94AC-8BF62326CC42"></a></div><section id="ember933" class="opened collapsible ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">A Florida dawn scene on Oct. 5, 1984 forms the backdrop for the climbing Space Shuttle Challenger, its two solid rocket boosters and external fuel tank, launched on the eight-day <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-41G.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">STS-41G</a> mission. The scene was photographed by astronaut Paul J. Weitz, who was piloting the Shuttle training aircraft (STA).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">Crewed by Robert L. Crippen, Commander; Jon A. McBride, Pilot; Mission Specialists Kathryn D. Sullivan (now NOAA administrator), Sally K. Ride, David C. Leestma and Payload Specialists Marc Garneau of the Canadian Space Agency and Paul D. Scully-Power, the mission’s objectives included the deployment of the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite and the demonstration of the Orbital Refueling System by Sullivan and Leestma during a spacewalk.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">On this mission, Sullivan became the <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/astronaut-kathryn-sullivan-on-oct-11-1984-spacewalk" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">first U.S. woman to perform a spacewalk</a>. Marc Garneau became the first Canadian astronaut to fly to space. The shuttle's crew of seven was the largest ever to fly on a single spacecraft at that time, and STS-41G was the first flight to include <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/people/galleries/ride_15.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">two female astronauts</a>. STS-41G completed 132 orbits of the Earth in 197.5 hours, before landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on Oct. 13.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><br class=""></p><div class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><br class=""></em></div><div class="editor-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-size: 14px;"></div></div></section></div></div></section></div></body></html>