''Odyssey'' was a monthly science magazine for children ages 9–14, created by Richard Berry, editor of ''Astronomy''. The magazine was published between 1979 and 2015. It was based in

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. The magazine was also headquartered in

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History and profile

''Odyssey'' debuted in 1979 with Nancy Mack as its founding editor and was published by AstroMedia Corp until it was acquired by

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. Kalmbach published the magazine from 1985 to 1991. ''Odyssey'' focused on astronomy and featured a robot named Ulysses 4-11 as its mascot. Ulysses would answer questions from readers and had his own comic, "The Adventures of Ulysses," , written by Bruce Algozin and Russ Chong, at the end of each issue until 1989. A single panel comic, "Springboard", written by John Leatherman, was also featured in the magazine. In 1991, Kalmbach sold ''Odyssey'' to Cobblestone Publishing, publisher of ''Cobblestone'', which in turn was sold to Carus Publishing in 2010. Carus continued publication as part of its Cricket Magazine Group. The magazine expanded its focus to science in general and Ulysses was discontinued as a mascot. Reader questions were answered by microbiologist Cy Borg, and the magazine also featured a short fiction section until 2015. In April 2015, ''Odyssey'' merged with another Cricket Group magazine ''Muse'',Muse and Odyssey magazines merge
''Lorinet''. 21 May 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2015. and subscribers now receive editions of ''Muse''.

Other features

Some other features included tracking the discoveries from the ''

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'' and ''

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'' space probes as they flew by planets in the

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in the 1980s. There was also a drawing contest that challenged children to draw space scenes which would then be shown in different issues of the magazine.

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