The latest issue of RocketSTEM magazine is now available online: Issue #13 • September 2016 – RocketSTEM

Articles include:

• Mining the sky – A race is underway to profit from mining asteroids for water and resources.
• Destination: Bennu – Spacecraft to retrieve a piece of an asteroid for analysis on Earth.
• Ticket to space – The KSC Visitor Complex lets people get up close to real space hardware.
• Jupiter’s mysteries – Juno has arrived and begun its scientific analysis of the solar system’s largest planet.
• Mission to Europa – If life exists in our solar system beyond Earth, then the best place to find it may be here.
• Revealing Pluto – Discoveries abound even as New Horizons continues to send back data from Pluto.

The magazine is

geared towards teachers, students and parents as well. The publication blends space history – past, present and future – with interviews, career paths, astronomy lessons, aerospace and astronomy news, museum features, NASA technology spinoffs, and educational resources; along with explanations of the mathematics and physics of all things to do with aerospace and space travel.