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LADEE
NASA launches new mission
to study the thin atmosphere
of the Earth’s Moon.
Interstellar
It’s been a long journey
for Voyager 1 as it has
exited the solar system.
Helen Sharman
The route to becoming the
first European woman in
space went through Russia.
Cygnus
Orbital Sciences Corporation
successfully docks the Cygnus
cargo spaceraft with the ISS.
Seth Green
The hardest working man
in Hollywood shares his love
of space travel and sci-fi.
Also Inside:
ULA’s 75th Launch . . . . . . . IFC
Medical Spinoffs . . . . . . . . . 48
Cassini Looks Back . . . . . . . 02
Soot’s Climate Role . . . . . . . 50
Radio Bursts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
SpaceFest V . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Lockheed Martin . . . . . . . . . 16
La Nada Weather . . . . . . . . 58
Visiting Europa . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Suborbital Math . . . . . . . . . . 60
Brown Dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
STEM For Classroom . . . . . . . 62
Centaurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
FMA Live! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Masten Xombie . . . . . . . . . . 38
School Experiment . . . . . . . 65
Astronomy Guide . . . . . . . . 40
Deep Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Cygnus The Swan . . . . . . . . 42
FINDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Saturn’s Surprise . . . . . . . . . . 44
Expedition 36 . . . . . . . . . . . IBC
Exercising In Space . . . . . . . 46
Expedition 37 . . . . . . . . . . . BC
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After a long summer hiatus, we
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marks the last of our large quarterly
issues. Instead we will be producing
smaller monthly issues through the
rest of 2013. Our fourth issue will be
released in early November.
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Editorial Staff
Managing Editor: Chase Clark
Astronomy Editor: Mike Barrett
Photo Editor: J.L. Pickering
Contributing Writers
Mike Barrett • Anthony Breitbach
Chris Gebhardt • Andrew Green
Rich Holtzin • Ken Kremer
Joe Maness • Nicole Solomon
Emory Stagmer • Sherry Valare
Jessica Wray • Amjad Zaidi
Contributing Photographers
Mike Barrett • Carla Cioffi
Pat Corkery • Anthony Fitch
Bill Ingalls • Ken Kremer
Dave Smith • Nicole Solomon
Walter Scriptunas II • Sherry Valare
Jay Westcott • Amjad Zaidi
RocketSTEM Board of Directors
Chase Clark • Brenden Clark
Tim Brown • Nicole Solomon
Anthony Fitch
RocketSTEM • October 2013
Vol. 1 No. 3 (ISSN: 2326-0661)
© 2013 All Rights Reserved
(Classroom use permitted)
RocketSTEM Media Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 304409
Pensacola, Florida 32507
email: [email protected]
On the Cover: A false color infrared
image of the Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the
Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard,
taken Sep. 18 as it launched from
Pad-0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) at NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia.
Image: Bill Ingalls
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