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Steve Evans
Jul 8, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/8/99
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Did anyone happen to see the CBS Evening news tonight (Thursday)??
It was about a woman who is stationed at the South Pole wintering over who
has discovered that she has a tumor on her breast. And how "Using airlifted
equipment like digital microscopes, the South Pole facility will take blood
samples, ultra sound results, and other vital information form the woman.
Taking it all in via the internet, the National Cancer Institute and other
doctors in the U.S. will use two-way video teleconferencing to guide the
Antarctica staff through treatment". The last passage is from CBS News.
CBS further states that the NSF has asked the US Air Force to help. The
Air Force will send "a C-141 Air Force cargo plane to drop anti-cancer
drugs to treat her condition and a 325-pound ultrasound machine to further
analyze just how bad it is. Thursday, the flight crew was given its final
briefing for the nearly 10,000-mile emergency mission requested by the
National Science Foundation.
The NSF, which runs the U.S. program in Antarctica, invited CBS News to
document this unprecedented effort which, weather permitting, may take place
this weekend.
Six pallets are to be dropped from the plane and carried by parachute down to
the two-mile thick icy plateau. But unlike routine daylight supply drops,
this mission will be done in complete darkness, the drop zone illuminated
only by burning barrels. It’s a real shot in the dark at a place too
dangerous to land.
CBS This Morning Co-Anchor Thalia Assuras spoke with mission commander Lt.
Col. John Pray.
“The conditions are very extreme in Antarctica,” said Pray. “We’re looking at
pitch black. The sun won’t rise, at least at that station, until August.
We’re looking at extreme temperatures. The forecast is minus 90 degrees
Fahrenheit; very, very cold.”
The crew will have to open the plane’s doors and physically push the supply
bundles out as they pass over the science center.
Personnel at the camp will have to light the drop zone with smudge pots so
the pilots can find it. And when the bundles actually land, the scientists
will have to pick them up quickly. “Since it is so cold, a lot of the
equipment can’t sustain the cold temperatures,” said Pray. “They have to
recover it within five minutes.”
It's a million dollar mission that's being launched here, a measure of the
desperation a mystery woman is confronting tonight at the bottom of the
world.
It was about a woman who is stationed at the South Pole wintering over who
has discovered that she has a tumor on her breast. And how "Using airlifted
equipment like digital microscopes, the South Pole facility will take blood
samples, ultra sound results, and other vital information form the woman.
Taking it all in via the internet, the National Cancer Institute and other
doctors in the U.S. will use two-way video teleconferencing to guide the
Antarctica staff through treatment". The last passage is from CBS News.
CBS further states that the NSF has asked the US Air Force to help. The
Air Force will send "a C-141 Air Force cargo plane to drop anti-cancer
drugs to treat her condition and a 325-pound ultrasound machine to further
analyze just how bad it is. Thursday, the flight crew was given its final
briefing for the nearly 10,000-mile emergency mission requested by the
National Science Foundation.
The NSF, which runs the U.S. program in Antarctica, invited CBS News to
document this unprecedented effort which, weather permitting, may take place
this weekend.
Six pallets are to be dropped from the plane and carried by parachute down to
the two-mile thick icy plateau. But unlike routine daylight supply drops,
this mission will be done in complete darkness, the drop zone illuminated
only by burning barrels. It’s a real shot in the dark at a place too
dangerous to land.
CBS This Morning Co-Anchor Thalia Assuras spoke with mission commander Lt.
Col. John Pray.
“The conditions are very extreme in Antarctica,” said Pray. “We’re looking at
pitch black. The sun won’t rise, at least at that station, until August.
We’re looking at extreme temperatures. The forecast is minus 90 degrees
Fahrenheit; very, very cold.”
The crew will have to open the plane’s doors and physically push the supply
bundles out as they pass over the science center.
Personnel at the camp will have to light the drop zone with smudge pots so
the pilots can find it. And when the bundles actually land, the scientists
will have to pick them up quickly. “Since it is so cold, a lot of the
equipment can’t sustain the cold temperatures,” said Pray. “They have to
recover it within five minutes.”
It's a million dollar mission that's being launched here, a measure of the
desperation a mystery woman is confronting tonight at the bottom of the
world.
Here are the URLs for those who want to read the story.
http://www.cbs.com/flat/story_167182.html
http://www.cbs.com/flat/story_167055.html
My thought and prayers go out to this woman and the people involved in the
effort.
Thanks
Steve in Rome GA USA
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