<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=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class="">Hi all,</font></div><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class=""> I hope everything is going well, it is amazing to me how fast time goes….I have been getting allot of speaker requests for the Great American Teach-In on Nov 17th…..I am already committed to that day but would be happy to visit on another day or even earlier in the month so you could focus on all the events preparing for the 17th….please let me know so we can schedule the visits….NASA continues to develop the program to send astronauts to Mars with projected testing and missions preceding the actual launch…..we must always remember to do our best, enjoy everything we do, make each day special, let those we care about most know, be appreciative of the good in our lives, smile & have fun! Gabe</font></div><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 10px; font-family: 'Titillium Web', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 36px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Journey to Mars Overview</h1><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font size="4" class="">NASA is on a journey to Mars, with a goal of sending humans to the Red Planet in the 2030s. That journey is already well under way.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font size="4" class="">For more than 40 years, the agency and its partners have regularly sent <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mars" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">orbiters, landers and rovers</a>, dramatically increasing our knowledge about the Red Planet and paving the way for future human explorers. The <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">Curiosity rover</a> has gathered radiation data to help us protect future astronauts, and the upcoming <a href="http://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">Mars 2020 rover</a> will study the availability of Martian resources, including oxygen.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font size="4" class="">There is more to learn as we expand humanity's presence into the solar system: Was Mars once home to microbial life or is it today? Can it be a safe home for humans? What can the Red Planet teach us about our own planet's past, present and future?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font size="4" class="">Building on the robotic legacy, the human exploration of Mars crosses three thresholds, each with increasing challenges as humans move farther from Earth: Earth Reliant, the Proving Ground, and Earth Independent.</font></p><div class="type-image dnd-atom-wrapper context-full_width" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px auto 2em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/slide2_0.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(42, 100, 150); outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;" class=""></a></div></div></div></body></html>