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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hi Margherita,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">(By the way, I was on holiday during our recent Working Group telecom; sorry to have missed it)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">NASA will be well-represented within the CSTS Working Group at the Fall meetings in Darmstadt, including John Pietras, Tim Pham, Robert Neutze, and probably Bert Golden. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I will not be there in person, but will be available to patch in for discussions on prototyping and inter-operability testing. Can you please schedule these discussions late in the afternoon?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Update: I plan to retire next year; my last day will be 1 April 2016 — I will have worked at NASA for 40 years. My boss is freeing up time (from the flight project that has had me locked down)
so that I can complete a prototype of the Tracking Data service and support inter-operability testing before leaving. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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