Life thrives at polar 'space base': extreme cold, ice, darkness challenge Airmen. Posted: Feb 26, 2008 19:40:14
... white-knuckle experience for anyone. But that's what it's like at Thule Air Base, Greenland. Blinding winds howling at more than ... zero and 24-hour nights are commonplace there. No wonder. Thule is more than 500 miles above the most northern part of Alaska ... Squadron. Lying halfway between Moscow and ...