It was on March 29th, 1867, that the stirrings began that would change this great northern land into the territory then state of Alaska. It was on this day that the Russian minister to the U.S., Eduard Andreevich Stoeckl, rushed to Secretary of State William H. Seward to bring him important news from […]
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On this day in 1898, the United States Department of Agriculture would open an experimental station on Kodiak Island to experiment with cattle breeding. The station, authorized by the 1887 Hatch Act, would open in Kalsin Bay, 14 miles to the south of present-day Kodiak The station’s initial mission was to assess the adaptability […]
A brilliant flash of light and a stream of directed flame generating 25,000 pounds of thrust pushed a NASA sounding rocket skyward north of Fairbanks early on Jan. 30. Up it went from Poker Flat Research Range, carrying the PolarNOx aurora research payload on a successful mission. Scientists were happy. In-person and online rocket […]