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Mars is a unique place for us. It is the only ‘rocky’ planet (not a gas giant like Jupiter or Saturn) that can be easily reached (‘easy’ is a relative term), and has areas where we can survive with minimal protection (‘minimal’ is a relative term). Is it a safe place? Certainly not. Tornados. Earthquakes. […]

This is our first serious step away from Earth. It’s 400,000 kilometers away, a minimum 7-day one-way trip, and it has its own gravity well. In Earth Orbit, if you want to go home, you just slow down a bit, and gravity will always take you home. Not so with Luna; a ship leaving Low

Every two-body system (eg Sun-Earth, Earth-Moon) has five Lagrange Points, which are stable or semi-stable ‘parking points’ where the gravity of the two bodies roughly balances each other out. L1 and L2 are directly in front of and behind the smaller body, respectively. L3 is behind the larger body. L4 and L5 are 60 degrees

So, if we’re going to leave and not come back, where would we go? What are our options? It’s easy to say “The sky is the limit!”, but in reality, physics and technology set the limits, and in today’s world, that gives us a somewhat narrow range of options. They are the Earth-Moon System, which

Why on Earth would I leave Earth? To some people, that will sound like a silly question, but to others it won’t. Right now, I’m sitting on a perfectly acceptable planet, watching a couple of Yellow-winged Caciques squabble over a piece of fruit while I drink my coffee and plan my day.  Should I go

Say, Debbi. Do those look Like Cows To You? Wood Buffalo National Park is THE largest national park in Canada. You can do every outdoor sport known to man here. And guess what, it has the largest herd of bison in the world. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The park is huge ..

july 26 – Fort Smith Hay River to Fort Smith to Fort Fritzgerald & back to Hay River This trip took us several days. There are NO services from Hay River to either of these communities, so make sure you gas up. If you are pulled over, everyone stops to see if you are ok.

July 19 – fort resolution Fort Resolution is a Metis community on the south end of Great Slave Lake. It is on Highway 6 and is 150 kilometers from Hay River. First located at the mouth of the Slave River, Fort Resolution (population 499), is the oldest continuously occupied modern settlement in the NWT. It

Highway 1, Northwest Territories When we crossed the 60th Parallel at the NWT border, we left the Alberta road system and entered a new highway system for the Northwest Territories. Thus begins Highway 1. The section of Highway 1 between the Alberta border and Enterprise has been designated the NWT Highway of Heroes, in honor

Day 4: The Deh Cho Route: Valleyview, Alta – High Level, Alta This route connects Alberta’s Highway 35 with the Mackenzie Highway in the NWT. We came up Highway 43N, then turned onto 35N. When we reached the intersection where we were supposed to turn left to go into Grimshaw, where we would officially start