Mars

Mars will be closer to Earth tonight then it will be again for 15 years!

Remember in The Martian when Matt Damon had to grow potatoes out of human waste in a makeshift greenhouse on Mars? And no, I'm not above referring to them as poo-tatoes. Well now, with NASA, Jeff Bezos' Amazon, Elon Musk's Tesla and Denis Muilenburg's Boeing all announcing plans to get people to the red planet in the near future, a small independent, global collective is working on how to get food

On May 25th, 1961, in front of Congress, the nation, and indeed the world, President John F. Kennedy said these immortal words: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth...

The Mars Close Approach is currently in process, and you may have caught a nice bright view of Mars last night. But the fourth rock from the sun, and possible attacking planet if that 1996 documentary Mars Attacks! wasn't completely made up (I've got our intern researching that as we speak), is set to make a bigger, brighter appearance on May 30th...