Well, the Red Bull team is certainly not going to let me drive their competition cars, no. Still, do a bit of an internet search […]
Crossing the edge of the world, and finding wild boars, a desert, a nazi airport, and an enchanted forest.
As I looked out from the window of my hotel room in the Dutch village Otterlo, I could see a heath of a few kilometres […]
Fire at Spa-Francorchamps
Track days with your friends are a lot of fun. But with the ‘good times’ feeling comes a hidden danger… The idea of meeting up […]
Antarctica: how can I possibly go back to civilisation after this?
A whale came to play with me once. Also, a leopard seal tried to eat my GoPro. And a family of whales swam underneath our […]
NASA and ESA are returning humans to the Moon, and they will orbit a saddle of a gravitational mountain.
The European Space Agency just signed a contract with Airbus to build the third European Service Module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft that will ferry the […]
A battle against fear of heights at Mount Baker
There I am sitting on the edge of a 100 feet deep crevasse, ready to throw myself into it. Fear of heights has haunted me […]
Why (green) hell is a nice place to be
Whenever I ask my petrolhead friends to join me for a little trip to the Nürburgring, the response is mostly negative. Too far, too dangerous, […]
Testing gear, flying tents, and missing bunnies in Greenland
It is a strange sensation to take off in a dark evening, and land during a sunny night. But this is exactly what can happen […]
What’s your place of calm?
Chaos. The plane was absolute chaos. Passengers walking around everywhere, not sitting down where they were supposed to sit. Stewards, known for their patience, were […]
How Europe is going to clean space
The European Space Agency (ESA) has addressed the need for cleaning up space for a long time now, but since formation of ESA’s Clean Space […]