Poker Flat Research Range

From the last frontier to galaxies far, far away, Alaska plays a key role not just for space research but for critical launch infrastructure.

During a talk at the University of Alaska Fairbanks this week, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman talked about Alaska's growing role in space exploration.

He talked about sites like the Poker Flats Research Range in-

Space physics and engineering

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I always have a trouble showing it with my background.

But, uh, it's Northern Lights and Rocket Flights, my years at Poker Flat Research Range.

Um, it's the memorandums and notes of Neil Brown, who has passed away, and who I, I guess, was in charge for years and made Poker Flats the range that it is.

And Sue was the editor that helped put it together.

The book is called Northern Lights and Rocket Flights.

My years at Poker Flat Research Range.

And he spent more than four years at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks at their geophysical institute.

including 18 years as the director of the Poker Flat Range, which mostly does science and sounding rockets.

On Tuesday, September 29th, if I have the book in front of me, here it is.

I was contacted by the Brown family and their father, who is deceased, had started and established a and managed poker poker flats research range up north for ever and when he died uh springer helped them write a biography of their father i'll see if you can it's always hard to do this because i have the uh a

little closer a little closer

the thing um so they wrote a biography of uh Poker Flats called Northern Lights and Rocket Flights, my years at the Poker Flight range.

And I thought it was an interesting story.

So members of his family are gonna be here.

And I don't know whether any of you know very much about Poker Flats, but it certainly has played a part in our space history.

And that is on Tuesday evening.