In the running for my proudest achievements during the spring months at Summit Station: shoveling out a buried cargo pallet with sixteen Jet-Assisted Take Off units: JATO rockets. In the long weeks of April flight delays, when the possibility was raised at dinnertime that we’d never get a flight, and so be stranded on the […]

I work at the Mobile Science Facility–the MSF. It’s a tan building, which sits about 400 meters to the east of station. It’s full of science equipment, which makes it loud with fans, and it’s warm inside. There is a wooden roof deck, accessed by a fixed ladder, with even more science equipment on top: […]

Since the first flight of the spring, there’s been a constant arrival and exodus of folks from station. Carpenters, camp staff, and the blur of science groups. But the small core of the winter crew has remained stable.That changed at the last flight. About two weeks ago, my four winter cohorts departed. We’d been a […]