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Exploring Mars
Eight rovers and orbiters
from three space agencies
are at the Red Planet.
Helo, Mars!
Learn to compute flight
data for the proposed
Mars Helicopter Scout.
Historic Pad 39A
The launch pad has been
America’s gateway to
space for five decades.
Falcon Heavy
SpaceX is gearing up
to debut its new rocket
later this year.
SpaceX goes bigger
The Interplanetary Transport
System may open up the
solar system to exploration.
Dawn’s harvest
NASA spacecraft has been
revealing secrets of Ceres,
a dwarf planet.
Also Inside:
ExoMars dipping into position . . . . . . . . . . . 18
What went wrong? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Word find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Cosmic ‘winter’ wonderland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
India’s record setting launch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Remembering Gene Cernan . . . . . . . . . . . IBC
Remembering John Glenn . . . . . . . . . . . . OBC