RocketSTEM Issue #9 - October 2014

Follow us online: facebook.com/RocketSTEM twitter.com/rocketstem www.rocketstem.org Contents 02 www.issuu.com/rocketstem Contributing Writers Mike Barrett • Lloyd Campbell Loretta Hall • Rich Holtzin Mike Killian • Ken Kremer Joe Maness • Christine Nobbe Sten Odenwald • Tony Rice Chris Starr • Amjad Zaidi Contributing Photographers Mike Barrett • Jim Campbell Lloyd Campbell • Doug Ellison Alexander Gerst • Mark Greenberg Loretta Hall • J. Hester Mike Killian • Charles Kohlhase Don Logan • Eric Long Damien Peach • Jack Schmitt The Howling Phaedrus • P. Scowen Contributing Graphic Artists Mark Hess • Gary Hovland Bob Jacobs RocketSTEM Board of Directors Chase Clark • Brenden Clark Tim Brown • Nicole Solomon Anthony Fitch RocketSTEM • October 2014 Vol. 2 No. 5 Issue 9 (ISSN: 2326-0661) © 2014 All Rights Reserved (Classroom use permitted) RocketSTEM Media Foundation, Inc. P.O. Box 304409 Pensacola, Florida 32507 email: [email protected] For five decades, the DSN has enabled us to stay in touch with our interplanetary craft. Charley Kohlhase Exploring the solar system has been a lifelong passion for this rocket scientist. 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 Deep Space Network 22 Planetary Imaging The first chapter of our guide on how to go about taking your own planetary photos. Rosetta Next month the ESA mission will make history by landing successfully on a comet. 38 10 26 Spaceport America Far away from the Florida coastline, a new spaceport has risen in the desert. Orion EFT-1 The initial test flight of NASA’s first new manned spacecraft since 1981 is nearly upon us. Also Inside: 58 Jack-o’-lantern Sun . . . . . . . IFC StemForTheClassroom . . . . . 44 Get Involved . . . . . . . . . . . . . 08 SpaceShipOne . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Eight Essential Facts . . . . . . . 09 Curriculum Ideas . . . . . . . . . . 51 Eagle Nebula . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Last Man on the Moon . . . . . 54 Rosetta Mission . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Commercial Crew . . . . . . . . 72 Rosetta Spacecraft . . . . . . . . 31 SSEP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 SpaceMath@NASA . . . . . . . . 33 CRS-4 Launch . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Arrival at Mars . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 JAXA Launch . . . . . . . . . . . . IBC 01 www.RocketSTEM .org 01

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