Don’t forget to ‘like’ Operation IceBridge's Facebook page or bookmark the official NASA OIB website. If you're on Facebook, I highly recommend the Facebook page.
From March 23 – April 19, 2013:
Miles flown commercially: 16,000
Miles flown with OIB: 12,000
Total combined miles: 28,000
Number of times vomited on the P-3: 0.5 (It only came up my throat.)
Countries visited: 4 (US, Canada, Switzerland, and Denmark – Greenland doesn’t count – it’s still a Danish territory for now)
Cities visited: 9 (Chicago, Anchorage, Fairbanks, Seattle, Washington DC, Zurich, Copenhagen, Kangerlussuaq, and Toronto)
Number of Greenland Minutes: 17 – and here’s the 17th: http://
Miles run: 33
Pushups: 2,100 (I’m sort of in this Facebook group that is doing push ups ... a lot of push ups.)
Journals written: 29
Words written: 16,467
Page views: 8613
Unique page views: 6769
Avg. time on page: 2:24
Videos: 39
Views on YouTube: 2,214
Pictures taken: more than 3,000 (I had to start dumping them and did not keep an exact count)
Pictures used in journals: 311
Average hours slept per night: 5
Average number of cups of coffee per day: 6 (I have a serious problem now … but admitting it is the first step)
Movies watched: 2
TV watched: 0
Books read: 0
Number of times someone started speaking Danish to me thinking I was Danish: 31
Number of times someone started speaking Greenlandic to me: 0
Classes connected to while in Greenland: 16
Students in those classes: 450
Teachers in those classes: 30
Kids pursuing Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math careers because of those connections: you never know, but that doesn’t mean you stop trying
Tears shed over not being able to hug my family at night: 113
Pizzas eaten for dinner in Kangerlussuaq: 12
Times muskox was eaten for dinner: 4 (twice on pizza)
Number of awesome 'fly-arounds' created by Matt Linkswiler: 1 (click on the hyperlink to download the .kmz file and you'll experience one of the actual missions I flew - requires Google Earth) Fly Around using Google Earth
Number of times I realized how lucky I was to have had such a great experience with such brilliant people: 1,398 … and counting.