RocketSTEM Issue #14 - March 2017 | Page 2

Follow us online: facebook.com/RocketSTEM twitter.com/rocketstem www.rocketstem.org All of our issues are available via a full-screen online reader at: www.issuu.com/rocketstem Editorial Staff Managing Editor: Chase Clark Astronomy Editor: Mike Barrett Photo Editor: J.L. Pickering Contributing Staff Mike Barrett • Laurie Bonneau Lloyd Campbell • Chase Clark Loretta Hall • Rich Holtzin Cole Jetton • Julian Leek Dan Leppold • Sebastian Kings Meha Magesh • Joe Maness Mavesa Nguyen • Igor Rozenberg Chris Starr • Aurthur Thomas Other Contributors Dick Clark • Joe Kowsky Kim Shiflett RocketSTEM Board of Directors Chase Clark • Brenden Clark Tim Brown • Anthony Fitch Nicole Solomon RocketSTEM • March 2017 Vol. 5 No. 1 Issue 14 (ISSN: 2326-0661) © 2017 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. Outside Cover: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is perched atop the historic LC-39A launch pad – the same spot from where the Apollo 11 was launched in 1969. Credit: SpaceX This Page: Artist’s illustration of Kennedy Space Center from the 1960s showing the plan for Launch Complex 39 with three launch pads. The northernmost pad was never built. Credit: NASA via Retro Space Images