RocketSTEM Issue #13 - September 2016

Follow us online: facebook.com/RocketSTEM twitter.com/rocketstem www.rocketstem.org Contents 02 www.issuu.com/rocketstem Contributing Staff Mike Barrett • Laurie Bonneau Lloyd Campbell • Chase Clark Peder Halseide • Cole Jetton Mary Kanian • Sebastian Kings Ken Kremer • Julian Leek Chris Starr • Sherry Valare Other Contributors Marc Buie • G. Coleman Jason Davis • G. Anglada-Escudé L. Frattare • Kelvinsong M. Kornmesser • A. Santerne RocketSTEM Board of Directors Chase Clark • Brenden Clark Tim Brown • Anthony Fitch Nicole Solomon RocketSTEM • September 2016 Vol. 4 No. 1 Issue 13 (ISSN: 2326-0661) © 2016 All Rights Reserved (Classroom use permitted) RocketSTEM Media Foundation, Inc. 38 S. Blue Angel Parkway. PMB 313 Pensacola, Florida 32506 email: [email protected] RocketSTEM Media Foundation is registered with the I.R.S. as a tax-exempt charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. tax code. On the Covers: Artist’s concept shows the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft contacting Bennu. (front), and the NEEMO-21 crew undersea (back). Credit:s NASA A race is underway to profit from mining asteroids for water and other resources. Destination: Bennu Spacecraft to retreive a piece of an asteroid for analysis on Earth. 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 Mining the sky 22 Ticket to space The KSC Visitor Complex lets people get up close to real space hardware. Jupiter’s mysteries Juno has arrived and begun its scientific analysis of the solar system’s largest planet. 66 12 56 Mission to Europa If life exists in our solar system beyond Earth, then the best place to find it may be here. Revealing Pluto Discoveries abound even as New Horizons continues to send back data from Pluto. 82 Also Inside: La Silla Observatory . . . . . . IFC Air Force Museum . . . . . . . . . 50 Be An Ambassador . . . . . . . . 11 Lego In Space . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Closest Exoplanet . . . . . . . . . 18 Word Find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Forever Remembered . . . . . 42 Jovian System . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Rocket Construction . . . . . . . 44 External Tank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Booster Test Fire . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Antiope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IBC 01 www.RocketSTEM .org 01

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