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Follow us online: facebook.com/RocketSTEM twitter.com/rocketstem www.rocketstem.org Contents 02 www.issuu.com/rocketstem Contributing Writers Mike Barrett • Lloyd Campbell Skip Chauvin • Chase Clark David Clow • Cameron Corrie Dauna Coulter • Walter Dermody Loretta Hall • Rich Holtzin Mary Kanian • Mike Killian Ken Kremer • Joe Maness Christine Nobbe • Tony Rice Nicole Solomon • Casey Stedman Sherry Valare • Amjad Zaidi Contributing Photographers Mike Barrett • Joe Bibby Mike Chambers • Chris Chamberland Brenden Clark • Lauren Harnett Bill Ingalls • Mary Kanian Ken Kremer • Ross Lockwood Frankie Martin • Tony Rice Kim Shiflett • Nicole Solomon Casey Stedman • Tiffany Swarmer Tom Usciak • Sherry Valare Alan Walters • Jack Weir Contributing Graphic Artists Victor Dang • Jonathan Mihaly Orion 8 • Mark Wade RocketSTEM Board of Directors Chase Clark • Brenden Clark Tim Brown • Nicole Solomon Anthony Fitch RocketSTEM • July 2014 Vol. 2 No. 4 Issue 8 (ISSN: 2326-0661) © 2014 All Rights Reserved (Classroom use permitted) As a test bed of technology for future landers, Morpheus has proven successful. Jack King ‘The Voice of Apollo’ has seen it all during his years at Kennedy Space Center. 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 Project Morpheus 28 Unsung Heroes Working behind the scenes were many heroes of the Apollo space program. Apollo 11 In July of 1969 the world watched as two humans stepped onto the Moon. 72 24 40 Buzz Aldrin He walked on the Moon, and now he is working to establish a colony on Mars. HI-SEAS 2 Adventurers simulate living at Mars within a habitat on the slope of a volcano. Also Inside: 82 Editor’s Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC Morehead Planetarium . . . . 36 All About the Moon . . . . . . . 10 The Night Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Moon Phases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 HI-SEAS 2 Crew . . . . . . . . . . . 88 RocketSTEM Media Foundation, Inc. P.O. Box 304409 Pensacola, Florida 32507 Viewing the Moon . . . . . . . . 12 Bolden Discusses Future . . . . 92 Google Lunar X Prize . . . . . . 14 A New Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 email: [email protected] Moonbots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Boeing CST-100 . . . . . . . . . . . 96 On the Cover: Buzz Aldrin descends from the LM to the lunar surface. Penn State Lunar Lions . . . . . 20 Cygnus Lanches to ISS . . . . IBC Moon Landing Math . . . . . . . 22 Delta II Comeback . . . . . . . BC Credit: NASA via Retro Space Images 01 www.RocketSTEM .org 01