<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>Vote for SOHO in NASA's Mission Madness Finals!</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div>Heliophiles,<br><br>After a nail biting 26,267 to 25,890 victory in the semi-finals over LRO<br>(which kicked out Apollo 11 and Hubble in earlier rounds), SOHO has advanced<br>to the finals in NASA's 2009 Mission Madness Tournament:<br><a href="http://mission-madness.nasa.gov/mm/bracket.html">http://mission-madness.nasa.gov/mm/bracket.html</a><br><br>In the finals, we're up against an even tougher opponent (SPB), which managed<br>to get over 40,000 votes in the last two rounds (and kicked out the Mars<br>Rovers (MER) and Mars Odyssey before). So to win, we will need every vote!<br><br>To vote for SOHO,<br><br>1. visit: http://mission-madness.nasa.gov/mm/bracket.html<br><br>2. find SOHO (under the large, red SUBMIT VOTE button)<br><br>3. click on "SOHO" to highlight the name, then click on blue arrow.<br><br>4. click the large, red, "Submit vote" button. You'll be asked to enter some<br>characters in a pop-up box to verify you're not a robot, and your vote will be<br>counted;<br><br>5. go to (1), above by clicking on the "bracket" link in the middle of the<br>page, and repeat as often as you like.<br><br>Voting will open tomorrow morning (Monday, April 6) and will close at midnight<br>(EDT) on Tuesday, April 7. So only two days to vote (April 6-7).<br><br>So please VOTE for SOHO, and VOTE OFTEN!! (and tell your friends and families,<br>and their friends, dogs and cats!)<br><br>Thanks for your support!<br><br>Bernhard<br><br>==================================================================<br>Dr. Bernhard Fleck<br>SOHO Project Scientist, European Space Agency<br>c/o NASA/GSFC Mailcode 671.1<br>Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA<br>bfleck@esa.nascom.nasa.gov<br>Tel: +1-301-286-4098<br>Fax: +1-301-286-0264<br>==================================================================<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>