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Leave Some Space in Your Thoughts for the Planets This Week

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Orion Crew Module being worked on at the Michoud
Orion Crew Module being worked on at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.

Marquette, Michigan – Todd Paz, host of the 8th Day, finished his show up with clips from NASA News and Eric Scott’s weekly rundown of high school football.

Orion Crew Module

Engineers at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans welded together the first two pieces of the Orion Crew Module as small step to getting astronauts to Mars. The module will consist of seven large aluminum pieces welded together using the friction stir welding technique.

Dawn Spacecraft Images

Bright spot
Bright spot on the Occator Crater.

Images from the Dawn Spacecraft is giving the closest ever view of the gleaming, bright spots from the Occator Crater on the Dwarf Planet series. A composite view was put together from two shots and virtual fly around animations. The resolution is three times better than the previous Dawn Series that snapped images in June.

International Space Station

Dan Hewitt reported that nine crew members packed the orbital laboratory to work on various projects including research on muscle loss, readying small satellites to be deployed, conducting Earth observations and driving rovers from a space control panel. On Sept. 11, Andreas Mogenson and Aidyn Aimbetov were sent home with Gennady Padalka, who has spent 879 days in space, more than anybody in history. Scott Kelly replaced Padlaka on Sept. 5 and will keep the position until his year-long mission is up in March.

Pluto's surface.
Pluto’s surface.

New Horizon Spacecraft

The expected year long data download for NASA’s new horizon spacecraft started. It will have a higher resolution to observe the diversity and complexity of the Pluto system. Early imagery revealed possible dunes, ice flows that came from mountainous regions, ice lakes and networks of valleys. Image download has more than doubled Pluto’s resolution by 140 yards per pixel.

9-11 Memorial

A memorial event for the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on New York’s World Trade Center was held at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The event at the center’s Fire Station 1, paid tribute to the 343 fire and rescue personnel who lost their lives during the attack. A piece of the World Trade Center also was also on display at the ceremony. On that day, 14 years ago – astronaut Frank Culbertson – the only American off the planet at that time, captured footage of the aftermath from the International Space Station.

National Preparedness Month

National Preparedness Month September is National Preparedness Month. Take advantage of emergency training activities offered by your community or place of work. Some employees at NASA headquarters took a CPR class recently. The Emergency Management Teams at all NASA facilities encourage everyone to visit www.ready.gov to learn more about what to do at work and home to prepare for the unexpected.

Remote

Great Lakes Radio was at Gwinn Furniture Outlet on Sept. 12 from 11am-2pm, broadcasting live from 103.3 WFXD, 92.7 WRUP and Fox Sports Marquette 105.1 for the Marquette area and 99.9 for the Gwinn area. Dale from Gwinn Furniture Outlet had prizes and giveaways. Eric Scott commented that everything seemed to be at a discounted price.

Sports

Great Lakes Radio covers high school football.

On Friday, Sept. 18 the Negaunee Miners will play the Iron Mountain Mountaineers on Sunny 101.9. The Ishpeming Hematites will play their crosstown rivals the Westwood Patriots on 98.3 WRUP. The Gwinn Modeltowners will play the Bark River-Harris Broncos on Fox Sports Marquette 105.1 for the Marquette area or 99.9 for the Gwinn area.

Tune in next week to hear more things you probably hadn’t thought about through the week on the 8th Day with Todd Paz on Sunny FM.

Check out the full interview with Todd Paz and Eric Scott right from your computer or smartphone.

 

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