<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><font size="4">Good morning all,</font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"> As always time is blur….I’m at the airport in New York waiting for a connecting flight to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia then to Lahore, Pakistan…I’ll be there 3 days then go to Norway…kind of a strange combination but it was a matter of timing and availability… the journey from Florida will take about 43 hours with no sleep…the issue is always waiting so long to book the flights…the closer to departure date the more costly the flights and routing is terrible with long layovers and many stops…still we have to approach it as an adventure to be enjoyed…every minute is a challenge, it is all mental…focusing on the minute we are in, finding positives, and always being thankful…this applies to all facets of our lives…when we learn and live this…our lives are filled with joy…</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"> The space program continues to advance with so many new missions…the commercial side is doing great..Space X is at the forefront with United Launch Alliance (ULA), Lockheed, Boeing, Blue Origin, and others all contributing…</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-size: large; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: GillSans;">We have to stay positive and always be thankful… remembering to do our best, enjoy everything we do, believe in ourselves, and let those we care about most know (I always say this, we all need to take it to heart…hugs and smiles. STAY SAFE, TAKE CARE, Love ya, Gabe</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: GillSans;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: GillSans;"><br></span></div><div><h1 class="title" data-reader-unique-id="titleElement" style="font-size: 1.95552em; line-height: 1.2141em; hyphens: manual; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font;">2024 Day of Remembrance Safety Town Hall</h1><div class="metadata singleline" style="hyphens: manual; margin-top: -0.75em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><time datetime="2024-01-23T16:58:37-05:00" data-reader-unique-id="13" class="date" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;">January 23, 2024</time></div><figure data-reader-unique-id="11" style="margin: 1.4em 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: -apple-system-font; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65);"><img height="576" src="cid:78A5CF57-3344-4B1D-A8F8-B2BEBCFE95A8" alt="DOR.jpeg" loading="lazy" data-reader-unique-id="12" class="extendsBeyondTextColumn" style="max-width: none; margin: 0.5em auto; display: block; height: auto; width: 787.546875px; margin-inline-start: -70px;"></figure><div data-reader-unique-id="7" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><p data-reader-unique-id="8" style="max-width: 100%;">Safety is a key NASA core value. NASA’s constant attention to safety is the cornerstone upon which we build mission success.</p><p data-reader-unique-id="9" style="max-width: 100%;">Every year, NASA holds a Day of Remembrance to commemorate those we have lost, reflect on why we explore, and commit to our safety practices.</p><p data-reader-unique-id="10" style="max-width: 100%;">In 2024, NASA Day of Remembrance falls on Thursday, Jan. 25. NASA Remembers the crews of Apollo 1, space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, and all members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery.</p></div></div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><h1 class="title" data-reader-unique-id="titleElement" style="line-height: 1.2141em; hyphens: manual; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><span style="font-size: 27.377279px;">ULA marks success with the inaugural mission of its Vulcan rocket launching a Moon-bound robotic lander</span></h1><div class="metadata singleline" style="hyphens: manual; margin-top: -0.75em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><div data-reader-unique-id="54" class="byline" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;"><span data-reader-unique-id="55" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;"><span data-reader-unique-id="56" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;"></span><a href="https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/01/" data-reader-unique-id="57" style="text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;">January 8, 2024</a></span> <span data-reader-unique-id="58" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;"><span data-reader-unique-id="59" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;"></span><a href="https://spaceflightnow.com/author/will-the-robinson-smith/" data-reader-unique-id="60" style="text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;">Will Robinson-Smith</a></span></div></div><figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65017" data-reader-unique-id="1" style="margin: 1.4em 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: -apple-system-font; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65);"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="http://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20240108_Vulcan-launch-MC-1.jpg" alt="" width="876" height="584" srcset="https://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20240108_Vulcan-launch-MC-1.jpg 876w, https://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20240108_Vulcan-launch-MC-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20240108_Vulcan-launch-MC-1-678x452.jpg 678w, https://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20240108_Vulcan-launch-MC-1-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px" data-reader-unique-id="2" class="extendsBeyondTextColumn" style="max-width: none; margin: 0.5em auto; display: block; height: auto; width: 787.546875px; margin-inline-start: -70px;" data-unique-identifier=""><figcaption data-reader-unique-id="3" style="max-width: 100%; margin-top: 0.8em; width: 647.546875px;">The inaugural Vulcan rocket leaps off the pad at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The booster was powered by the first pair of BE-4 engines to fly in space. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now</figcaption></figure><p data-reader-unique-id="4" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;">With the company’s future riding on it, United Launch Alliance’s first Vulcan rocket successfully put a commercial robotic lander on course for the Moon after lifting off from Cape Canaveral’s pad 41 at 2:18 a.m. EST (0718 UTC).</p><p data-reader-unique-id="5" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;">This mission was the first certification flight of Vulcan, an important proving ground for the first launch vehicle developed by ULA since it was established in 2006. The milestone comes roughly a decade after the rocket was first announced.</p><p data-reader-unique-id="6" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;">“Yeehaw! I’m so thrilled! I can’t tell you how much,” said ULA President and CEO Tory Bruno after the rocket’s upper stage sent the Astrobotic Peregrine lunar lander on its way.</p><p data-reader-unique-id="7" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;">This first certification mission for Vulcan (Cert-1) was also an historic step in returning the U.S. back to the Moon’s surface for the first time since 1972. The primary payload onboard the rocket was a privately-funded robotic lunar lander, which was built by Pittsburgh-based company, Astrobotic.</p><p data-reader-unique-id="8" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;">A few minutes after the Peregrine lander separated from the Centaur 5 upper stage, flight teams with Astrobotic confirmed that they were getting telemetry data from the lander.</p><p data-reader-unique-id="9" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;">“Today Peregrine Mission One achieved a number of big milestones,” said John Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic, in a statement. “Peregrine powered on, acquired a signal with Earth, and is now moving through space on its way to the Moon. These successes bring us one step closer to seven nations landing on the Moon, six of which have never been to the Moon before.”</p></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf?format=multipart" style="font-weight: bold; caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; font-size: 27.377279px; display: inline !important;"><font color="#000000">Not dead yet: Japan prepares for possible recovery of SLIM</font></a></div><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left" style="font-variant-caps: normal; caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; padding-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 3px; margin-right: 15px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-right: 15px !important;"><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf" style="color: rgb(49, 103, 197);"><img height="320" border="0" alt="Not dead yet: Japan prepares for possible recovery of SLIM.jpeg" class="scale_full_width" style="max-width: 570px;" src="cid:2BFB9D0E-5374-4CFA-AFCE-34DFBD76E99E"></a></td></tr><tr><td width="570" style="padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 15px !important;"><div style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 9px; line-height: normal;">(JAXA)</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="name-100" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; display: inline !important;"><br></div></div><div><div class="name-100" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; display: inline !important;"><br></div></div><div><div class="name-100" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; display: inline !important;"><br></div></div><div><div class="name-100" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; display: inline !important;"><br></div></div><div><div class="name-100" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; display: inline !important;"><br></div></div><div><div class="name-100" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; display: inline !important;">"According to the telemetry data, SLIM's solar cells are facing west. So if sunlight begins to shine on the lunar surface from the west, there is a possibility of generating power, and we are preparing for recovery. #SLIM can operate with power only from the solar cells," the team said.</div><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span class="mobile_wrap" style="white-space: nowrap; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;"><b>Full Story: </b><a target="_blank" class="mobile_wrap" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf?format=multipart" style="color: rgb(49, 103, 197); white-space: normal; text-decoration: none;">Space</a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> (1/23)</span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px;"> </span></div><div><font size="4"> </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rElqCKojllDzaStUCifPauBWcNqOgo?format=multipart" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 27.377279px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: inline !important;"><font color="#000000">NASA restores contact with Mars helicopter Ingenuity</font></a></div><div><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left" style="font-variant-caps: normal; caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; padding-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 3px; margin-right: 15px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-right: 15px !important;"><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rElqCKojllDzaStUCifPauBWcNqOgo" style="color: rgb(49, 103, 197);"><img height="328.575" border="0" alt="NASA restores contact with Mars helicopter Ingenuity.jpeg" class="scale_full_width" style="max-width: 600px;" src="cid:FB24CC9E-D832-44FE-AD58-8B798FB21CBC"></a></td></tr><tr><td width="600" style="padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 15px !important;"><div style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 9px; line-height: normal;">(NASA/JPL-Caltech)</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="name-100" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; display: inline !important;"><br></div></div><div><div class="name-100" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; display: inline !important;"><br></div></div><div><div class="name-100" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; display: inline !important;"><br></div></div><div><div class="name-100" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; display: inline !important;"><br></div></div><div><div class="name-100" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; display: inline !important;"><br></div></div><div><div class="name-100" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; display: inline !important;">We held our breath for a moment on Jan. 18, when scientists announced they'd lost contact with the Perseverance Mars rover's helicopter, Ingenuity. But over the weekend, Ingenuity phoned home and NASA is again communicating with the little Mars chopper. But what happened?</div><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span class="mobile_wrap" style="white-space: nowrap; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;"><b>Full Story: </b><a target="_blank" class="mobile_wrap" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rElqCKojllDzaStUCifPauBWcNqOgo?format=multipart" style="color: rgb(49, 103, 197); white-space: normal; text-decoration: none;">Space</a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> (1/22)</span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px;"> </span></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><div data-testid="copy_headline" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); padding-bottom: 5px;"><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf?format=multipart" style="color: rgb(49, 103, 197); 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line-height: 26px; display: inline !important;">First astronaut missions to the Moon since 1972 delayed due to heat shield questions, hardware readiness</a></h1></div><div data-testid="copy_headline" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf?format=multipart" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"></a><div class="metadata singleline" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-size: 18px; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-weight: 400; hyphens: manual; margin-top: -0.75em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; max-width: 100%;"><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf?format=multipart" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"></a><div data-reader-unique-id="68" class="byline" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;"><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf?format=multipart" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"><span data-reader-unique-id="69" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;"><span data-reader-unique-id="70" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;"></span></span></a><a href="https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/01/" data-reader-unique-id="71" style="text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;">January 10, 2024</a> <span data-reader-unique-id="72" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;"><span data-reader-unique-id="73" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;"></span><a href="https://spaceflightnow.com/author/will-the-robinson-smith/" data-reader-unique-id="74" style="text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;">Will Robinson-Smith</a></span></div></div><figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-63138" data-reader-unique-id="1" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65); font-size: 0.75em; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-weight: 400; margin: 1.4em 0px; max-width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em;"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="http://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/20230808-Orion_Crew2_SFN-Feature.jpg" alt="" width="678" height="381" srcset="https://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/20230808-Orion_Crew2_SFN-Feature.jpg 678w, https://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/20230808-Orion_Crew2_SFN-Feature-300x169.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px" data-reader-unique-id="2" class="extendsBeyondTextColumn" style="max-width: none; margin: 0.5em auto; display: block; height: auto; width: 678px; margin-inline-start: -15.226563px;" data-unique-identifier=""><figcaption data-reader-unique-id="3" style="max-width: 100%; margin-top: 0.8em; width: 647.546875px;">The Artemis 2 crew, standing in from of their Artemis spacecraft, discusses their planned around-the-moon flight with reporters at the Kennedy Space Center. Left to right: commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now.</figcaption></figure><p data-reader-unique-id="4" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-size: 18px; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-weight: 400; max-width: 100%;">A quartet of astronauts will have to wait until next year before their voyage around the Moon. In a robust update on Tuesday afternoon, NASA leadership announced that the next two missions in the Artemis program, and the first featuring astronauts, will each shift back by nearly a year.</p><p data-reader-unique-id="5" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-size: 18px; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-weight: 400; max-width: 100%;">The Artemis 2 mission, which was due to liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center this November, will instead launch no earlier than September 2025. The Artemis 3 mission, which will still feature the first crewed Moon landing since 1972, is now pushed to September 2026 at the earliest.</p><p data-reader-unique-id="6" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-size: 18px; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-weight: 400; max-width: 100%;">“As we remind everybody at every turn, safety is our top priority,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “And though challenges are clearly ahead, our teams are making incredible progress.”</p><p data-reader-unique-id="7" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-size: 18px; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-weight: 400; max-width: 100%;">The delay of the Artemis 3 mission was forecast in November in a <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/d24106256.pdf" data-reader-unique-id="8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;">report</a> to Congress from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). That report suggested that landing back on the Moon was likely to actually happen in early 2027 “if development took as long as the average for NASA major projects.”</p><p data-reader-unique-id="7" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-size: 18px; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-weight: 400; max-width: 100%;"><br></p><div data-testid="copy_headline" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: 400; padding-bottom: 5px;"><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rElqCKojllDzaStZCifPauBWcNWgWf?format=multipart" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"><span style="font-size: 27.377279px;"><font color="#000000">If life exists on Mars, don't count on sample-return</font></span></a><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rElqCKojllDzaStZCifPauBWcNWgWf?format=multipart" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"></a><a href="https://www.space.com/author/leonard-david" target="_self" data-before-rewrite-localise="https://www.space.com/author/leonard-david" data-reader-unique-id="175" class="byline" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(0, 104, 218); max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; display: inline !important;">Leonard David</a></div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica; font-variant-caps: normal; padding-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 3px; margin-right: 15px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-right: 15px !important;"><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rElqCKojllDzaStZCifPauBWcNWgWf" style="color: rgb(49, 103, 197);"><img height="328.575" border="0" alt="If life exists on Mars, don't count on sample-return.jpeg" class="scale_full_width" style="max-width: 600px;" src="cid:73CF59D7-59B5-4B7A-98AA-A39125596D11"></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p data-reader-unique-id="7" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-size: 18px; font-family: -apple-system-font; 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line-height: 26px; display: block;"><br></a><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf?format=multipart" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(49, 103, 197); font-size: 21px; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"><br></a><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf?format=multipart" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(49, 103, 197); font-size: 21px; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"><br></a><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf?format=multipart" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(49, 103, 197); font-size: 21px; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"><br></a><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf?format=multipart" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(49, 103, 197); font-size: 21px; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"><br></a><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf?format=multipart" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(49, 103, 197); font-size: 21px; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"><p data-reader-unique-id="1" style="font-weight: 400; max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;">While the clamoring to bring bits and pieces of Mars back to Earth for intensive study continues, scientists are also devising instruments and techniques that can be sent to the Red Planet to perform on-the-spot probes for life. Could these low-cost approaches usurp the early need for samples shot directly from Mars? </p></a><p data-reader-unique-id="3" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); max-width: 100%; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf?format=multipart" style="font-size: 21px; font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"><font color="#000000">That option brings to mind the comment from Marcel Proust — a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the novel <em data-reader-unique-id="4" style="max-width: 100%;">In Search of Lost Time</em>: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." For the discovery of prior life on Mars, a<b> </b></font><a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/nasa-troubled-mars-sample-return-mission-scientists-upset" data-before-rewrite-localise="https://www.space.com/nasa-troubled-mars-sample-return-mission-scientists-upset" data-reader-unique-id="5" style="font-weight: 400; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">sample return</a><font color="#1b1b1b" style="font-weight: 400; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"> program would work best, but if we want to discover present-day life on the Red Planet, doing so with instruments right there on </font><a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html" data-before-rewrite-localise="https://www.space.com/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html" data-reader-unique-id="6" style="font-weight: 400; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Mars</a><font color="#1b1b1b" style="font-weight: 400; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"> is the way to go. </font></a></p><p data-reader-unique-id="8" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-weight: 400; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;">That's the view of Dirk Schulze-Makuch, a professor for astrobiology and planetary habitability at the Technical University Berlin in Germany. Additionally, he thinks currently available methodologies are suitable and far enough developed to determine whether there is life on Mars. </p><p data-reader-unique-id="13" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-weight: 400; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;">"However, in order to get unambiguous results we would have to put a suite of several of these methodologies together," Schulze-Makuch told Space.com.</p><p data-reader-unique-id="14" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-weight: 400; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><strong data-reader-unique-id="15" style="max-width: 100%;">Related: </strong><a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/nasa-troubled-mars-sample-return-mission-scientists-upset" data-before-rewrite-localise="https://www.space.com/nasa-troubled-mars-sample-return-mission-scientists-upset" data-reader-unique-id="16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;">NASA's troubled Mars sample-return mission has scientists seeing red</a></p><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf?format=multipart" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(49, 103, 197); font-size: 21px; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"><br></a><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf?format=multipart" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(49, 103, 197); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"><h1 class="title" data-reader-unique-id="titleElement" style="line-height: 1.2141em; hyphens: manual; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><span style="font-size: 27.377279px;">Astronauts ready for first, all-European mission to the International Space Station</span></h1></a><div class="metadata singleline" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); 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margin: 0px; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;">January 11, 2024</a> <span data-reader-unique-id="52" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;"><span data-reader-unique-id="53" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;"></span><a href="https://spaceflightnow.com/author/will-the-robinson-smith/" data-reader-unique-id="54" style="text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;">Will Robinson-Smith</a></span></div></div><figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65042" data-reader-unique-id="1" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 0.75em; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-weight: 400; margin: 1.4em 0px; max-width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65);"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="http://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20231209_Ax3_SpaceX_TestDrive_PRIME.jpg" alt="" width="876" height="584" srcset="https://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20231209_Ax3_SpaceX_TestDrive_PRIME.jpg 876w, https://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20231209_Ax3_SpaceX_TestDrive_PRIME-300x200.jpg 300w, https://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20231209_Ax3_SpaceX_TestDrive_PRIME-678x452.jpg 678w, https://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20231209_Ax3_SpaceX_TestDrive_PRIME-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px" data-reader-unique-id="2" class="extendsBeyondTextColumn" style="max-width: none; 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Image: Axiom Space</figcaption></figure><p data-reader-unique-id="4" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-size: 18px; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-weight: 400; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">For the third time, Axiom Space is preparing a charter mission to the International Space Station. The Ax-3 mission carries the distinction of featuring an all-European crew, with Commander Michael López-Alegría being a dual citizen of both the United States and Spain.</p><p data-reader-unique-id="5" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-size: 18px; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-weight: 400; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">Following the Flight Readiness Review on Wednesday, the crew spoke about their upcoming mission amid their ongoing quarantine in Florida, which has been in place for a little over a week. They are set to launch to the ISS, on Wednesday, Jan. 17, at 5:11 p.m. EST (2211 UTC).</p><p data-reader-unique-id="6" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-size: 18px; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-weight: 400; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">“I’m very proud to being leading this mission to the International Space Station. It’s important not just for the scientific research and technology demonstrations and outreach events we will do, but it’s a very important step towards Axiom Space having a commercial space station in orbit before the decade is out,” said López-Alegría.</p><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf?format=multipart" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(49, 103, 197); font-size: 21px; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"><br></a><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf?format=multipart" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(49, 103, 197); font-size: 21px; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"><br></a><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf?format=multipart" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(49, 103, 197); font-size: 21px; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"><br></a><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf?format=multipart" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(49, 103, 197); font-size: 21px; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"><br></a><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/rEqMCKojllDzbiwJCifPauBWcNJEnf?format=multipart" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(49, 103, 197); font-size: 21px; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"><br></a></div></div></div></div></body></html>