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Blogs
January 22, 2013
[UPDATE] Wash. U. Physicists to Set to Break Ballooning Record...In Antarctica
Update January 22: Super-TIGER has broken the official NASA balloon record. And yes, there's a trophy for that. Which has already reached the team in Antarctica. (Yet it takes a week for UPS to deliver a simple package within the continental United States. What is up with that? But we digress.) Cur ... More >>
Blogs
September 21, 2011
Latest Adventures of Ronnie Smith, St. Louis's Antarctic Poet and Explorer
Jennifer SilverbergRonnie Smith, in Antarctic gear.When last seen, Air Force colonel, poet and former Riverfront Times feature subject Ronnie Smith was celebrating the end of a years' long campaign to rename all the airway navigation waypoints on air route A338 between Christchurch, New Zeala ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2011
Ronnie Smith, Sled Dogs Make National Geographic
National GeographicThe southernmost aeronautical waypoints between Antarctica and New Zealand, renamed by Col. Ronnie Smith.Last fall, Air Force Colonel Ronnie Smith succeeded in his campaign to rename the aeronautical waypoints between Christchurch, New Zealand, and McMurdo Station, the U.S. ... More >>
Blogs
October 1, 2010
Antarctic Sled Dogs (and Ponies) Finally Have Their Day
courtesy 109th Airlift WingSmith (right) in flight.When Riverfront Times last checked in with Ronnie Smith, the Air Force colonel and poet was working on several projects relating to Antarctica, where he had served for twelve years. (See "Poetry in a Cold Climate", January 20.) Among them was ... More >>
News
January 20, 2010
Poetry in a Cold Climate: Ron Smith found his muse in Antarctica's vast icy wilderness