In cold, dry, subarctic air, a rocket taller than a house tilts northward, awaiting the moment when a person inside a nearby concrete building pushes a button. The ink-black Chatanika River valley will then flash white, and erupt with a clap of thunder. A slender NASA vehicle will shoot skyward, carrying a sensitive instrument […]
When they launch, the four rockets now pointed northward from Poker Flat Research Range will add to the 345 that have arced over northern Alaska during the past 48 years. Recently, Chuck Deehr remembered number one. Deehr is a retired space physicist at the Geophysical Institute. He had just earned his doctorate in 1968 […]
Alaska State Troopers rescued a hypothermic man from the side of the Steese Highway on Monday night, the trooper dispatch reports. AST received a call of a possibly intoxicated man sitting along-side the Steese Highway near mile 48 at 9:43 pm on Monday night. It was reported that the man was wearing wet clothing, was […]