RocketSTEM Issue #4 - November 2013 | Page 6

The rocket (top) created a mound of exhaust and a cloud of dust as it took off. Photo: NM Student Launch Program Spectators waiting for the SL-7 launch (center) line the rim of a small ridge on the remote, 28-square-mile Spaceport America property in southern New Mexico. Photo: Loretta Hall Jerry Larson, president of UP Aerospace, inserts a payload canister (bottom) in the SpaceLoft 7 rocket while team member Dan Hanle watches. Photo: NM Student Launch Program 04 04 www.RocketSTEM.org