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Chase is the founder of RocketSTEM and serves as the magazine's first managing editor. He previously worked as a reporter/photographer/editor for a variety of Midwestern newspapers for a decade, as well as working as a graphic designer for a handful of professional sports and lifestyle magazines, before stepping away to become a 'certified' Rocket Hobo. He's witnessed a dozen launches in person, and was honored to be one of the last civilians to be allowed aboard Endeavour's cockpit while the Space Shuttle was still running under its own power.