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August 17, 2023

And finally – adventurous unusualnesses, pt. 7: going cosmic (zero-gravity).

First – a review of the series:

Part 1: Ocean-going adventures

Part 2: South Pole & North Pole adventures

Part 3: Land-based (road and rail) adventures

Part 4: Chartered… train adventure

Part 5: Beijing Bird-Nest Stadium adventure

Part 6: Volcanic, cockpit & air-pocket adventures

And finally, closing the series – an aerial weightlessness adventure!…

Ten 25-second bursts of complete weightlessness – zero-gravity: just like what astronauts endure when in a space ship or station in outer space! And we experienced it in this here special Roscosmos astronaut-training airplane ->

Oh my gravity-less! A simply cosmic experience!

And I’ve been lucky enough to try this twice – in 2014 and 2018. And I want another go!…

And I’ve gotten myself a ticket for a suborbital flight on Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic – so, fingers crossed, one day my adventures will take on cosmic proportions!…

However, I may never make the flight; but if someone wants my ticket (No. 250) for a fair price – welcome!…

You might expect I’d have been on the International Space Station by now, but, alas – no. I did prepare – including quitting smoking! – but I didn’t pass the physical (. Never mind: there’s plenty to see and do on Earth yet! I still dream of one day traveling through space though…

And that is it folks. Awesome-adventure travel-experience series (sea > land > roads/rail > stadiums > volcanoes > cosmos (almost) – done!

Hope you enjoyed.

Back soon – literally with new adventures: of the safari kind in Africa!…

April 27, 2024

Our first global Cyber Immune conference!

Despite the extraordinarily uncharacteristic weather in Dubai, we still managed to hold our first ever international Cyber Immunity Conference there; hurray! So, what is Cyber Immunity? (In case you don’t know; sorry if you do.) It’s our approach to building cybersystems that are secure-by-design and, as such, resilient against hacker attacks. Actually, there’s a lot […]

April 25, 2024

Tanks aren’t afraid of dirt – or the Arctic.

I’ve been asked rather often already about the vehicles we undertook our road trip to Tiksi in. And that’s understandable – especially since they aren’t quite the instantly recognizable household-name vehicles like, say, Land Rovers or Toyota Land Cruisers… First off, I have to say that we didn’t choose the vehicles ourselves; we left that […]

April 22, 2024

Yakutsk-Tiksi-Yakutsk-2024: first overnight stay – Khandyga.

Hi folks! Herewith, another episode in my Yakutsk-Tiksi-Yakutsk expedition series… You’ve had my warm-up posts (about winter/ice roads, naleds, and the Kolyma Highway). Now’s come the time to climb behind the wheel and get going!… It all started in Yakutsk. From there we headed east/northeast along the Kolyma Highway for nearly a thousand kilometers. Next, […]

April 17, 2024

1500km on the R504: devilish cold; snow, ice and hoar.

There are many different kinds of roads and highways. There are straight and there are winding; there are smooth and there are bumpy; there are fast-moving and there are snail’s pace; there are ordinary and there are beautiful (rather: ordinary, pretty, beautiful, and mind-blowing). There are plenty of beautiful roads around the world – most […]

April 16, 2024

Water, outside, not frozen – below -40°C. How?!

Our friend, the Far North – even in winter (and up there, in northern Yakutia, even March is winter). The extended winter of the North is a kingdom of eternal snow and ice, extreme cold, and endless white expanses. All the same – and you won’t believe this – you can find H2O in liquid form […]

April 12, 2024

You’ve heard of a road trip. But what about an ice-road trip?!

You’ve had your intro posts already; now, if there are no questions from the audience, I’ll proceed to my next tale from the Far Northern side, which could have been titled “Yakutian ice roads heading north from Kolyma Highway“. But first, I think – an explainer… What is an ice road? And what’s a winter […]