During the three to five-day mission, the autonomous Dragon will repeatedly travel from the North Pole to the South Pole at an altitude of 267 miles, with each orbit taking about 46 minutes.

A Learjet will depart from Wichita this week as pilots try to fly to the South Pole, then the North Pole and back to Wichita in three days. The “Polar Mission,” more formally known as polar ...

Rian: Why are horses good for travel? Aunt Maya ... and his Aunt Maya as they begin their journey from the North Pole to the South Pole. On the way they discuss why sleds and huskies are used ...

Corbis “It is splendid to have people who refuse to recognise difficulties,” Scott wrote early in the expedition to the South Pole. But they would after they set out from the pole. Bettmann ...

that travel slowly from high to low ground and eventually out to sea, creating ice shelves and icebergs. The other clip is about the Geographic South Pole and the challenge it sets to explorers ...