“At the South Pole, summer contracts are three months, and winter contracts are nine months to a year long. During this time, you live at the station full-time and only leave at the end of your ...

National Science Foundation, Dec. 1, 2022, How human presence at South Pole has evolved over the past century National Science Foundation, accessed Dec. 23, NSF Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station ...

To obtain b-roll, contact Dena Headlee at [email protected]. The United States has dedicated a new scientific station at the geographic South Pole–the third since 1957–officially ushering in a ...

He immediately applied for the $80,000-a-year mechanic position at the US government-owned Amundsen-Scott South Pole research station when he learned of it in 2019 and hasn’t looked back since.

The rescue plane, an eight-seat Twin Otter equipped with snow-ski landing gear, had arrived at the South Pole on Tuesday about 8 p.m. EDT after a perilous trip through jet-black skies.

AMUNDSEN-SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION, Antarctica, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The snow squealed and crunched as the U.S. Air Force ski-plane slid to a stop at the bottom of the world.

The Que Sera Sera, the R4D transport plane that Cmdr. Shinn flew to the South Pole, in August 1957, partially buried after wintering at the Little America exploration base.© U.S. Navy/U.S. Navy ...

The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station sits at the Earth's axis, standing at an elevation of 9,306 feet on Antarctica's "nearly featureless ice sheet," which is around 9,000 feet thick at that ...

“The South Pole Station maxes out at about 150 people.” The items the company secures come from a variety of suppliers, including ADM, Cargill, Morton Salt, Riviana Rice and Kraft, she said.

Press Release New South Pole Station Power Plant, Satellite Link Go Online by SpaceRef January 24, 2001 ... -NSF- For more information on the U.S. Antarctic Program and Amundsen Scott South Pole ...

My father, Charles E. Jenkins, was the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station scientific station leader from 1974 through 1975. It was considered hazardous duty.