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Affectionately known as a living ghost town and Utah's official Christmas Town, Helper is located along the Price River in Carbon County, approximately 110 miles (180 km) southeast of Salt Lake City. Helper is named for the extra engines historically required to help trains up the...

"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives." - Socrates. “Now I know why I am here. Not for a closer look at the Moon, but to look back...

"The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons." - Edwin Hubble. It has been a relatively short while since we ventured into space and already thousands of satellites orbit the Earth, humans have walked on the Moon, man-made probes visited the planets even reaching...