Ad Astra Volume 13 Number 5 2001

ON THE COVER: STS-98 crew photographs a blue planet: Earth! Photo courtesy of NASA Johnson Space Center.

Featured Articles:

UNIVERSITIES AND SPACE EDUCATION

• 15
  Controlled Environment Systems Research at the University of Guelph 
  By Michael Stasiak
• 17
  The Athena Project
  By Diane Sherman
• 18
  Moon Devils
  By Diana Branson and Helen Reed
• 19
  ASUSAT Lab: Student Projects in Aerospace
  By Helen Reed
• 21
  Close the Textbooks and Experience Space Science at the University of Arizona!
  By Harold P. Larson and Larry Lebofsky
• 24
  Purdue University in Zero-G
  By Steven H. Collicott
• 26
  Undergraduate Rocket Propulsion
  By Stephen D. Heister
• 27
  Research Opportunities from Sounding Rockets at Johns Hopkins University
  By Stephan R. McCandliss
• 29
  Astrobiology: Training the Multidisciplinary Mind
  By John Armstrong

  SPACE MUSEUMS

• 31
  Space Museums Around the World
  By Aimee Slaughter
  NSS CHAPTERS AND SPACE EDUCATION

• 32
  Philadelphia Area Space Alliance Report
  By Michelle Baker
• 33
  Illini Space Development Society
  By Joannah Metz
• 34
  HALO Student Achievement Program
  By Greg Allison
• 36
  A Lesson in our Space School
  By Michael Stennecken
• 38
  Orange County Space Society
  By Larry Evans
• 39
  ET – Agriculture in Oregon
  By R.D. “Gus” Frederick
• 41
  Education in Niagara
  By Raymond W. Merrick
• 42
  Space and County Fairs: The fair is not just cows and chickens any more!
  By Carl J. Elsbree and Dale B. Grady
• 43
  Central Coast Space Frontier Society
  By Tony James