In a maneuver never before attempted, the 232-foot-tall Super Heavy booster executed a series of precise burns to align itself with the launch tower. We Build a Barn, Got Stuck in the MUD and Shot a ...
Sergeant George Rice was the official photographer on the team, and his images capture details of the men's lives in the vast, bleak Arctic landscape. When the party left Fort Conger August 1883 ...
Earth from space This 2012 satellite photo shows a quartet of near-identical glaciers on Canada's Ellesmere Island. The ice masses help to spark life in the otherwise barren Arctic environment.
I once asked a denizen of the Arctic north what people did all day in such frozen latitudes. “In the summer we fish and make ...
NATO countries have joined forces to improve satellite coverage in the Arctic, a NATO official said on Friday, a region that is home to Moscow’s nuclear submarine fleet and whose strategic ...
“By joining forces and formalising our partnerships, we will further strengthen air connectivity in the West-Nordic region and in the Arctic.” Air Greenland chief Jacob Nitter Sorensen says ...
Back in the 19th Century there was a race to map and navigate the Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean as a shortcut between the North Atlantic and North Pacific. Explorers would take ships ...
A bomb threat forced an Air India flight to Chicago to make an emergency landing north of the Arctic Circle — as tensions ...
According to the defense official, work is also underway to build ... upgrading the vehicles in service with units deployed in the Arctic, Chief of the Defense Ministry’s Main Automotive and ...
In 1875, Sir George Strong Nares (1831–1915) set out for the Arctic in command of the ships Alert and Discovery, hoping to reach the North Pole and find the rumoured Open Polar Sea that surrounded it.
near the mouth of the Kolyma on the Arctic Ocean. The site had originally been occupied by a transit station for prisoners bound for Stalin’s gulags, and Soviet-era relics were everywhere.