Astrobiologist Dale Andersen's Antarctic Field Report: Wheels Down In Cape Town - Astrobiology Web
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[Dale Andersen]: The 787 Dreamliner rolled to a stop far out on the apron, as the big jets often do here, and I climbed down into a gray afternoon and onto a waiting bus.
Across the airfield, parked in front of the Ultima Antarctic Logistics hangar, stood the aircraft that will carry us the rest of the way: six hours south over the Southern Ocean to the Antarctic continent.
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