Category : Operations

McChord Air Force Base pilot Lt. Col. Greg Pyke has flown countless trips to Antarctica, but nothing prepared him for the cargo he had the...

Take almost any town in the United States and watch the comings and goings of its goods. The same thing happens in Antarctica, but a...

South Pole residents can relate to the famous lament of this mariner, surrounded by undrinkable water. The station sits on top of a two-mile-thick ice...

McMurdo Station will be a key link in a new environmental satellite system that will not only benefit meteorological forecasting and climatic research but also...

As George Blaisdell looks around Antarctica, he does not see so much what is here as what might be. As operations manager in the Office...

This season marks The Antarctic Sun’s 10th year as the U.S. Antarctic Program’s official news source for everything you wanted to know about Antarctica, the...

A C-17 Globemaster III, flown by airmen from McChord Air Force Base in Washington, airdropped more than 20,000 pounds of cargo at the South Pole...

The Clothing Distribution Center in Christchurch, New Zealand, may just contain more extreme cold weather gear than any outdoor shop on the planet, outfitting about...

The road to Port Hueneme on California’s southern coast slices through strawberry fields and rural fruit stands, a bucolic drive that ends at quiet beaches...

One era ended and another began on Jan. 12, 2008, when the American flag was lowered from its place on top of the iconic South...