<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=""><font size="4" class="">Hi all,</font><div class=""><font size="4" class=""> good morning, I hope you have had a wonderful week….I think many schools overseas are on their “winter break” next week….I know the kids are looking forward traveling and enjoying fun adventures at this time of the year…at the presentations I always speak with the kids about seeing the ISS from their home….the link is below….I hope you will check it out….everything is going great here….wishing you all a wonderful weekend….<span class="">we have to remember to always do our best, enjoy everything we do, live in the present, make each day special, be appreciative of the good in our lives, let those we care about most know, smile & have fun!</span><span class=""> gabe</span></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 23px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">How to See the Space Station From the Ground:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><font color="#0433ff" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important; text-decoration: none !important; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased !important;" class=""><span style="line-height: inherit;" class=""><a href="http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/" class="">http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/</a></span></font></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="js-tweet-text-container"><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 26px; line-height: 32px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.01em;" class="">For the 1st time, scientists measured rapidly varying temps in hot gas emanating around a black hole: <a href="https://t.co/KicD9KeAtO" rel="nofollow noopener" dir="ltr" data-expanded-url="http://go.nasa.gov/2m1ubYl" class="twitter-timeline-link" target="_blank" title="http://go.nasa.gov/2m1ubYl" style="color: rgb(32, 91, 167); text-decoration: none;"><span class="tco-ellipsis"></span><span class="invisible" style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 0;">http://</span><span class="js-display-url">go.nasa.gov/2m1ubYl</span><span class="invisible" style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 0;"></span><span class="tco-ellipsis"><span class="invisible" style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 0;"> </span></span></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NASANuSTAR" class="twitter-atreply js-nav pretty-link" dir="ltr" data-mentioned-user-id="425404298" style="color: rgb(32, 91, 167); text-decoration: none;">@NASANuSTAR</a></div></div><div class="AdaptiveMediaOuterContainer" style="margin-top: 10px;"><div class="AdaptiveMediaOuterContainer" style="margin-top: 10px;"><div class="
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Today, three rockets launched from Alaska to study auroras: </span><a href="https://t.co/Td3aCpWFsa" rel="nofollow noopener" dir="ltr" data-expanded-url="http://go.nasa.gov/2my0QYq" class="twitter-timeline-link" target="_blank" title="http://go.nasa.gov/2my0QYq" style="color: rgb(32, 91, 167); text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: 0.25999999046325684px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="tco-ellipsis"></span><span class="invisible" style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 0;">http://</span><span class="js-display-url">go.nasa.gov/2my0QYq</span><span class="invisible" style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 0;"></span><span class="tco-ellipsis"><span class="invisible" style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 0;"> </span></span></a></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><img alt="lynch_2_launch_img_9602_chris_perry.jpg" apple-inline="yes" id="2454ABF7-F445-45C1-963F-2E1CF3292FA9" height="640" width="427" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:1734E909-439B-4FA3-A983-D061DEE72658" class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: 0.01em; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Happy 20th birthday to </span><a href="https://twitter.com/NASA_Hubble" class="twitter-atreply js-nav pretty-link" dir="ltr" data-mentioned-user-id="14091091" style="font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: 0.01em; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 91, 167); text-decoration: none;">@NASA_Hubble</a><span style="font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: 0.01em; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, used to separate light into wavelengths: </span><a href="https://t.co/gr1Q8z0DG1" rel="nofollow noopener" dir="ltr" data-expanded-url="http://go.nasa.gov/2lUxmTh" class="twitter-timeline-link" target="_blank" title="http://go.nasa.gov/2lUxmTh" style="font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: 0.01em; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 91, 167); text-decoration: none;"><span class="tco-ellipsis"></span><span class="invisible" style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 0;">http://</span><span class="js-display-url">go.nasa.gov/2lUxmTh</span><span class="invisible" style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 0;"></span><span class="tco-ellipsis"><span class="invisible" style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 0;"> </span></span></a></div><div class=""><div class="AdaptiveMediaOuterContainer" style="margin-top: 10px;"><div class="
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