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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)
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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
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Editorial Staff
Managing Editor: Chase Clark
Astronomy Editor: Mike Barrett
Photo Editor: J.L. Pickering
Deep Space Network
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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.
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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:
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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
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