RocketSTEM Issue #10 - February 2015

Follow us online: facebook.com/RocketSTEM twitter.com/rocketstem www.rocketstem.org Contents 02 www.issuu.com/rocketstem Contributing Writers Adia Balawa • Lillith Bulawa MaryAnn Bulawa • Mike Barrett Lloyd Campbell • Loretta Hall Kaelan Jungmeyer • Sam Mundell Chris Starr • Amy Thompson Contributing Photographers Mike Barrett • James Blair S. Corvaja • V. Brobu Tony Gray • Corey Green Lauren Harnett • Julian Leek J. Mai • Robert Markowitz L. McFadden • Robert Murray J. Parker • George Shelton Bill Stafford • Hervé Stevenin RocketSTEM Board of Directors Chase Clark • Brenden Clark Tim Brown • Nicole Solomon Anthony Fitch RocketSTEM • February 2015 Vol. 3 No. 1 Issue 10 (ISSN: 2326-0661) © 2015 All Rights Reserved (Classroom use permitted) RocketSTEM Media Foundation, Inc. P.O. Box 304409 Pensacola, Florida 32507 email: [email protected] On the Cover: Expedition 47 (Soyuz 45) crew members Tim Kopra and Timothy Peake during training in the SES Alpha Cupola. Credit: NASA/Lauren Harnett Spend a week aboard the National Flight Academy as an experimental pilot. Navy in space The space program and the U.S. Navy have a long history of working together. All of our issues are available via a full-screen online reader at: Editorial Staff Managing Editor: Chase Clark Astronomy Editor: Mike Barrett Photo Editor: J.L. Pickering NFA Ambition 16 One-Year Mission It will be a 12-month journey for a NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut. Dawn nears Ceres The Dawn spacecraft is closing in rapidly on the dwarf planet Ceres. 32 08 24 Tim Peake ESA astronaut prepares for his mission to the ISS, set to launch in November. Philae’s Landing Despite a bouncy ride, Philae successfully landed on a comet’s surface. Also Inside: 52 Become a Patron . . . . . . . . IFC Astronomical Serendipity . . . 56 Explore the Ambition . . . . . . 04 Chicks in Space . . . . . . . . . . . 60 NFA Program Dates . . . . . . . . 07 Orion Launch . . . . . . . . . . . . IBC Valeri Polyakov . . . . . . . . . . . 20 ESA Spaceplane Test . . . . . BC Astronaut Training . . . . . . . . . 38 Future ISS Crews . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Planetary Imaging . . . . . . . . 46 Cassiopeia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 In the next issue: We’ll celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope. 01 www.RocketSTEM .org 01

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