HMP-2010: Air National Guard Airlift Mission Accomplished
Resolute Bay, July 8 - The 102nd Rescue Wing of the Air National Guard (ANG) based on Long Island, NY, is providing critical airlift support to the Haughton-Mars Project this year. After a successful first flight in May to deploy the HMP's Northwest Passage Drive Expedition (a.k.a. NASA HMP-2010 Sea-Ice Traverse) team, and preposition critical supplies for the HMP-2010 summer campaign, a C-130 Hercules plane departed Long Island for Moffett Field, CA on 6 July, to begin this year's second airlift. After picking up NASA and Mars Institute cargo and personnel at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, the plane headed north to Vancouver on 7 July where it picked up additional HMP equipment and food supplies, and a few more HMP participants.
Members of the ANG C-130 crew, including LtCol Ken Hohorst (far right), Commander of the airlift mission, HMP Director Dr Pascal Lee (below his dog Ping Pong), HMP Logistics Manager Kira Lorber (second from right), and NASA Johnson Space Center-Wyle Labs human physiology researcher Valerie Meyers (far left). (Photo Haughton-Mars Project/Pascal Lee)
The C-130, with on board a total of about 18,000 lbs of payload and personnel, then flew direct from Vancouver to Resolute Bay where it landed in the evening of 8 July. The ANG crew, commanded by LtCol Ken Hohorst, performed superbly and got the HMP-2010 field campaign to a fantastic start.
Dr Pascal Lee's dog, Ping Pong, patiently waits for the HMP's new ATVs to get loaded onto the Air National Guard's C-130 Hercules transport plane at Moffett Field, CA. (Photo Haughton-Mars Project/Pascal Lee)
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