Steve Fentress
Steve is a former contributor to Space.com in the coverage areas of stars, exoplanets, and constellations. He's an author, podcaster, and retired Planetarium Director at Rochester Museum & Science Center where he was employed for 28 years and responsible for content and scheduling of the venue's Planetarium astronomy shows. Other duties included adapting still and moving images, music and sound, narrating shows, and leading selection and scheduling of all film and laser shows. His book, Sky to Space: Astronomy Beyond the Basics with Comparisons, Ratios and Proportions was published in 2017.
Latest articles by Steve Fentress
![james webb mirror in a production warehouse surrounded by ladders and equipment](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/gLFzcSGxZXQjjTcDSqvtCP-320-80.jpg)
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Exploring Earth and space by remote control
By Elizabeth Howell published
Reference This NASA center for climate research and Earth observation manages several missions, like the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope.
![The space shuttle Enterprise arrives at Marshall Space Flight Center for the first test of all shuttle components together.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/v8ZtRHWG5yfYG2tonNvNjY-320-80.jpg)
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center: A hub for historic and modern-day rocket power
By Steve Fentress published
Wernher von Braun's crew built Saturn rockets here. Skylab, Hubble and Chandra all had roots here. Now, Marshall Space Flight Center tests rocket bodies for Artemis and engines for Blue Origin.
![Kepler Field of View](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iVhkhdsWa2cWhqaDqWr4rC-320-80.jpg)
Kepler Space Telescope: The Original Exoplanet Hunter
By Steve Fentress last updated
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope was a revolutionary space telescope dedicated to finding planets outside our solar system.
![A star chart from "A Handbook and Atlas of Astronomy" by W. Peck (published 1890).](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vpV7Gfn6jNbo8GF7ERAnAe-320-80.jpg)
What are star charts?
By Steve Fentress published
Star charts show the arrangement of stars in the sky, in a style that can be scientific, artistic or both, depending on the intended use.
![After a research flight by the HL-10 lifting body, technician John Reeves works on the craft, and pilot Bill Dana watches the B-52 that launched it.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/xLoC25q7AK6gqrLDGiDxWK-320-80.jpg)
NASA's Armstrong Center: Flying what others only imagine
By Steve Fentress published
Reference article: Facts about NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center.
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