<html><head><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="" dir="auto"><font size="3" class="">Good morning all,</font><div class=""><font size="3" class=""> I hope you had a great weekend and will enjoy the first day of the February…even though we have 29 days this year, it always amazes me how fast this month goes…bet we know not to get ahead of ourselves and to always enjoy the day we are in…Friday was a fun day for me as I participated in a Career Day<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#141823" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" class=""> at Lockmar Elementary and had a blast. I think the Career Days are great for the kids…it gives them something to think about as fellas hopefully, a reason to do well in school… we had arranged for hour-long segments but when I got to the school, I was told I only had 3 classes, about 20</font></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> minutes with each grade….I know I can’t get my message to the kids in 20 minutes so Kris, who was conducting the day, arranged for a 4th to give me an hour with all the kids… I can’t thank her enough for making the adjustment…but then, what do I do during the 20 minutes that I don’t repeat in the hour? I decided to just speak with the kids about KSC and let if flow…. we actually spoke about Challenger as the kids were very interested…all in all it went great…I always have so much fun with the kids and hopefully they enjoyed it too… wishing everyone a wonderful day...we must always remember to do our best, enjoy everything we do, live in the present, make each day special, let those we care about most know, be thankful for the good in our lives, smile and have fun….gabe </span></font></div><div class=""><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><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;"><div class="title-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 738.75px; 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;">NASA Television to Air Russian Spacewalk </h1></div></div><section id="ember947" 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;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="type-image dnd-atom-wrapper context-full_width" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px auto 2em;"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/m16-009.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><object typeof="foaf:Image" width="237" height="157" alt="Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px;" apple-inline="yes" id="DB9D7294-8CF4-4FF3-B3A2-76300D480934" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" class="" data="cid:B72ABCC5-1FFE-48B4-9D6D-E7A11C5152C2" type="application/x-apple-msg-attachment"></object></a></div><div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 11px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, Expedition 40 flight engineer, attired in a Russian Orlan spacesuit, is pictured in this close-up view during a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) in support of science and maintenance on the International Space Station. During the five-hour, 11-minute spacewalk, Skvortsov and cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev (out of frame) deployed a small science satellite, retrieved and installed experiment packages and inspected components on the exterior of the orbital laboratory.</div><div class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">Credits: NASA</div><div class="link" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-size: inherit; padding: 0px;"></div></div></div>NASA Television will broadcast live coverage of a 5.5-hour spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station beginning at 7:30 a.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 3. <span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">Expedition 46 Flight Engineers Yuri Malenchenko and Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos will don their spacesuits and exit the station's Pirs airlock at approximately 8:10 a.m. Their objectives are to deploy and retrieve several experiment packages on the Zvezda and Poisk modules and install devices called gap spanners, which will be placed on the hull of the station to facilitate the movement of crew members on future spacewalks. </span><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">Malenchenko and Volkov also will install the Vinoslivost experiment, which will test the effects of the space environment on various structural material samples, and test a device called the Restavratsiya experiment, which could be used to glue special coatings to external surfaces of the station’s Russian segment. </span><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">The pair will retrieve the EXPOSE-R Experiment, a collection of biological and biochemical samples placed in the harsh environment of space. The EXPOSE program is part of ESA’s (European Space Agency) research into astrobiology, or the study of the origin, evolution and distribution of life in the universe. </span><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">The spacewalk will be the 193rd in support of space station assembly and maintenance, the sixth spacewalk for Malenchenko and the fourth spacewalk for Volkov. Malenchenko will be designated extravehicular crew member 1 (EV1) and Volkov will be extravehicular crew member 2 (EV2). Both will wear Russian Orlan spacesuits bearing blue stripes.</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit: </span><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv" style="font-weight: 700; font-size: 1em; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv</a> <span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">For more information about the International Space Station and its crew, visit: </span><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/station" style="font-weight: 700; font-size: 1em; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">http://www.nasa.gov/station</a></div></div></section></span></div><div class=""><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">KSC Employee Update:<u class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></u></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class=""><u class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt;" class=""><a href="https://youtu.be/WaM7PjxflCU" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Inside KSC!</span></a></span></u></b><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: windowtext;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></span></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 12.75pt;" class=""><br class=""><a href="https://youtu.be/WaM7PjxflCU" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""><object apple-inline="yes" id="337169E0-D665-47EB-BB78-67E358F12A64" height="183" width="251" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" class="" data="cid:image003.jpg@01D15A96.9979B6E0" type="application/x-apple-msg-attachment"></object></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Inside KSC this week, the Kennedy Space Center workforce, visitors and guests gathered Jan. 28 for the NASA Day of Remembrance, honoring the crews of Apollo 1, and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia. An aft skirt like one that will be used on a solid rocket booster for NASA's Space Launch System rocket was moved to the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility to prepare for testing.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 12.75pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Make sure to share Inside KSC! <a href="https://youtu.be/WaM7PjxflCU" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">https://youtu.be/WaM7PjxflCU</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 12.75pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Read the current issue of</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 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font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 12.75pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 12.75pt;" 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: 738.75px; 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;">Curiosity Self-Portrait at Martian Sand Dune</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="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia20316-main_take6dune.jpg" data-bindattr-957="957" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(42, 100, 150); outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;" class=""><object class="feature-image" alt=" Self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover" data-bindattr-958="958" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%;" apple-inline="yes" id="5E2544D6-ED18-4007-AF23-E623D98D8DAE" height="513" width="480" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" data="cid:C83105C9-62F2-41D7-A4C0-A7C79FF3BD4B" type="application/x-apple-msg-attachment"></object></a></div><section id="ember949" 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="">This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at "Namib Dune," where the rover's activities included scuffing into the dune with a wheel and scooping samples of sand for laboratory analysis. <span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">The scene combines 57 images taken on Jan. 19, 2016, during the 1,228th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars. The camera used for this is the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) at the end of the rover's robotic arm. </span><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">Namib Dune is part of the dark-sand "Bagnold Dune Field" along the northwestern flank of Mount Sharp. Images taken from orbit have shown that dunes in the Bagnold field move as much as about 3 feet (1 meter) per Earth year. </span><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">The location of Namib Dune is show on a map of Curiosity's route at</span><span style="font-size: 1em;" class=""> </span><a href="http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=7640" style="font-size: 1em; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=7640</a><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">. The relationship of Bagnold Dune Field to the lower portion of Mount Sharp is shown in a map at</span><span style="font-size: 1em;" class=""> </span><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16064" style="font-size: 1em; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16064</a><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">.) </span><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">The view does not include the rover's arm. Wrist motions and turret rotations on the arm allowed MAHLI to acquire the mosaic's component images. The arm was positioned out of the shot in the images, or portions of images, that were used in this mosaic. This process was used previously in acquiring and assembling Curiosity self-portraits taken at sample-collection sites, including "Rocknest" (</span><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16468" style="font-size: 1em; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16468</a><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">), "Windjana" (</span><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18390" style="font-size: 1em; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18390</a><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">) and "Buckskin" (</span><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19807" style="font-size: 1em; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19807</a><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">). </span><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">For scale, the rover's wheels are 20 inches (50 centimeters) in diameter and about 16 inches (40 centimeters) wide. </span><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">MAHLI was built by Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project's Curiosity rover. </span><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">More information about Curiosity is online at</span><span style="font-size: 1em;" class=""> </span><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/msl" target="new" style="font-size: 1em; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">http://www.nasa.gov/msl</a><span style="font-size: 1em;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">and</span><span style="font-size: 1em;" class=""> </span><a href="http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/" target="new" style="font-size: 1em; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/</a><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">As follow up to to Challenger….Christa’s Backup, Barbara Morgan….who did everything Christa did in preparation for Challenger came back two years later to become an astronaut….on her mission, she duplicated what would have been done on Challenger and became “The First Teacher in Space”….an amazing tribute to teachers every where….which, to me, is so deserving…...</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><object height="600" width="480" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="2E010D87-89AC-4E5E-9DD7-3E0A6914E394" class="" data="cid:0417AADD-7052-4075-AC7E-177B7B66E0AE" type="application/x-apple-msg-attachment"></object></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></section></div></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 12.75pt;" class=""></p></span></div></body></html>