Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor, is credited with saying: A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... where a few team members are huddled around a map of Dark Star. Passages discovered during each expedition ...

Once this photolettering process was refined, it was applied to our United States map supplement in the May 1933 National Geographic. Shortly thereafter, Society cartographer Charles E.

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... missions to create the February 1969 hand-­painted map—considered the best reference at the time.

9 min read This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. This interview was drawn from a taping for a StarTalk television episode that will air November 19 at 11 ...