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The Summer 2010 issue of American Road® magazine embraces space travel as its universal motif. The launch button is pressed with "American Road's Guide to the Galaxy," a huge, humming monolith of a lead feature that aims a moombeam at thirty space-related sites around the US and Canada. Ten of American Road's best writers joined the mission that includes nods to space centers, northern lights, Martian landings, MoonPies and even "Lost in Space" B9 robots. Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve oozes otherworldly intrigue. Craig and Liz Larcom capture its mystique before and after dark in "Moon Dance: Idaho's Peaks to Craters Scenic Byway." Johnnie V shifts into hyperdrive to explore weird science along the road from Portales to Las Cruces, New Mexico, or—as American Road® calls it—"US Highway 70: A Space Odyssey." Joel Arnold pilots the magazine's last orbit over the North Star State, eyeing the sky for meteorites and searching the fields for blooms, in "Star Bright: Minnesota’s Shooting Star Scenic Byway."