Today is the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Hubert H. Humphrey. If you don’t remember him, Humphrey was Vice President under Lyndon Johnson. He also nearly won the presidency in 1968—but was beaten by a tiny margin by Richard M. Nixon. (How different would history have been if he had won?) In any case, [...]

Brian Shiro, an astronaut hopeful who made it through several rounds during NASA’s most recent selection process, is going to Mars. Well, sorta. Brian has been selected as a crewmember for the Mars Society’s next pseudo-Mars expedition to the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS). It’s on Devon Island in the Antarctic, where NASA has [...]

Surveyor 1, an unmanned American spacecraft, landed on the moon in June 1966. It landed in the Ocean of Storms, which later became the landing site of Apollo 12. As you may recall, the Apollo 12 moonwalkers visited another Surveyor (# 3) during their trip in November 1969. In any case, in 1967 another craft, [...]