A 45-foot NASA sounding rocket is set for launch this month at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks.
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Cold War inspired the first launch from Poker Flat
A 45-foot NASA sounding rocket is set for launch this month at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks.
How the Cold War inspired the Poker Flat rocket range’s first launches
A 45-foot NASA sounding rocket set for launch soon at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks. Workers there wrote on the nose cone of the aurora-research rocket a frequent quote from range founder Neil Davis: “‘We’re in a building situation.’
North Pacific council gets review of Bering Sea pollock program
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council oversees all federal fisheries between three and 200 miles off the Alaska coast. One of eight regions, the North Pacific fishery is by far the country’s most profitable, having produced two-thirds of the country’s total seafood value in 2015.
How years of wealth weakened Alaska’s spirit of innovation
Alaska’s decades of oil wealth atrophied our capitalistic muscles. Our business culture needs to learn risk-tolerance and aggressiveness to compete in America’s innovation economy.
Obama Said to Use 1953 Law to Restrict Offshore Oil Drilling
President Barack Obama is preparing to block the sale of new offshore drilling rights in most of the U.S. Arctic and parts of the Atlantic, a move that could indefinitely restrict oil production there, according to people familiar with the decision. Obama will invoke a provision in a 1953 law that gives him wide latitude to withdraw U.S. waters from future oil and gas leasing, said the people who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision had not been announced.