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  • Evening light begins to fade at NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (later redesignated Armstrong Flight Research Center), Edwards, Calif., as technicians begin the task of mounting the Space Shuttle Atlantis atop NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft for the ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., following its STS-44 flight Nov. 24 through Dec. 1, 1991. After 38 years, the grey-colored space shuttle Mate-Demate Device (MDD) at Edwards Air Force Base is being dismantled and demolished as a part of the final chapter in the U.S. space shuttle program. (NASA courtesy photo)

    Edwards, NASA say goodbye to historic landmark

    A structure synonymous with NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center for the past 38 years, the grey-colored space shuttle Mate-Demate Device (MDD) at Edwards Air Force Base is being dismantled and demolished as a part of the final chapter in the U.S. space shuttle program.

  • Officials expand space-tracking website

    Defense Department officials announced additions to its space situational awareness program’s Space-Track.org website.

  • Air Force, small business partnership yields blade health monitoring technology

    A cost-saving and risk-mitigating technology for scanning engine rotor blades developed by the Air Force and a small business recently resulted in awards of more than $5 million.

  • AFSOUTH strengthens space ties with partner nations

    Three officers from the Dominican Republic, Peruvian and Brazilian militaries partnered with active-duty and guard Airmen at Davis-Monthan for a rare opportunity to work collectively on the space component of PANAMAX 2014, Aug. 8-15.
  • Cyber Airmen from the 24th Air Force at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. (Courtesy image)

    Cyber Airmen create virtual help desk

    The Air Force Enterprise Service Desk is going virtual, and Joint Base San Antonio - Lackland will be the first to see it as it rolls
  • Service members operate a Skate device, a small unmanned aircraft system, in field testing. (Courtesy photo)

    New 'urban beat cop' surveillance system to keep military operators out of harm’s way

    In an urban (non-combat) environment, information is typically collected by local law enforcement officers who are “walking their beat,” officers can become familiar with areas of the city by observing, interpreting and understanding what they see on a daily basis.
  • A rare look inside the Gen. James H. Doolittle Combined Air and Space Operations Center facility Aug. 22, 2013, at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. The facility is currently being used to support the U.S. Southern Command sponsored PANAMAX 2014 exercise series. The exercise focuses on ensuring the defense of the Panama Canal. Forces from 17 nations will take part in simulated training scenarios in the waters around the canal and other locations from Aug. 8-Aug. 15. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Heather Redman)

    Joint force defends Panama Canal during exercise

    An illegitimate organization seeks to undermine peace, security and liberty by destabilizing local and regional economies in Central America.
  • Staff Sgt. Timothy Beaupre checks the identification card of 1st Lt. Paul Wolfe July 30, 2014, before he enters the control room at a Missile Alert Facility in North Dakota. During code change, missileers work 12-hour shifts instead of the usual 24-hour shifts due to an increase in the mission tempo. Beaupre is a 91st Missile Security Forces Squadron flight security controller and Wolfe is the 740th Missile Squadron missile combat crew commander. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Apryl Hall)

    Code change: Securing critical assets

    Once a year, the codes used to launch Minot Air Force Base's intercontinental ballistic missiles need to be updated.The manual process requires hundreds of Airmen work around the clock for three weeks straight to ensure all launch facilities are accessed and the missile code change is a success.

  • Air Force's new maritime radar becomes operational

    The Air Force Technical Applications Center has a welcome addition to its treaty monitoring capabilities - the Cobra King radar system aboard the USNS Howard O. Lorenzen. Cobra King is a new, state-of-the-art mobile radar system consisting of S- and X-band phased radars that AFTAC employs to provide worldwide, high quality, high resolution, multi-wavelength radar data to the Department of Defense's strategic community, the Missile Defense Agency and other government agencies.

  • Altus breaks ground for KC-46A construction

    Officials broke ground on a new construction project on Altus Air Force Base, Okla., Aug. 7. The ceremony marked the beginning of a months-long effort to prepare for the arrival of the newest refueling aircraft in the Air Force fleet, the KC-46A Pegasus.
  • The 45th Space Wing supported Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX) successful launch of their Falcon 9 rocket carrying the AsiaSat 8 satellite at 4 a.m. Aug. 5, 2014, from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. A combined team of military members, government civilians and contractors from across the 45th Space Wing provided vital launch support to the SpaceX mission, including weather forecasts, launch and range operations, security, safety and public affairs. (Courtesy photo/SpaceX)

    45th Space Wing supports SpaceX launch of AsiaSat 8 satellite

    The 45th Space Wing supported Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX) successful launch of their Falcon 9 rocket carrying the AsiaSat 8 satellite from Space Launch Complex 40 at 4 a.m. Aug. 5
  • An Atlas V rocket carrying the GPS II-7 satellite for the Air Force launches Aug. 1, 2014, from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex-41, Fla. This was the second successful launch in just four days from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. GPS IIF-7 is the seventh in a series of next-generation GPS satellites and will join a worldwide timing and navigation system utilizing 24 satellites in six different planes, with a minimum of four satellites per plane positioned in orbit approximately 11,000 miles above the Earth’s surface. (Courtesy photo/United Launch Alliance)

    GPS IIF-7 successfully launched from Cape Canaveral AFS

    The U.S. Air Force launched the seventh Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida at 11:23 p.m. EDT, Aug. 1.
  • Two F-22 Raptors and a T-38 Talon from Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, fly together during a 43rd Fighter Squadron Basic Course training mission Oct. 7, 2013 over Florida. A sortie begins when an individual aircraft takes off and ends when it lands. The 43rd FS is the only squadron in the world that trains and develops F-22 pilots. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. J. Wilcox)

    Tyndall AFB takes F-22 pilot training to next level

    The Air Force’s ability to continue developing a fifth generation fighter aircraft fleet ready to meet the challenges of future warfare, hinges in large part, on a steady influx of capable and trained F-22 Raptor pilots.
  • The Automated Navigation and Guidance Experiment for Local Space satellite, an Air Force Research Laboratory experimental satellite, and two Air Force Space Command Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program, or GSSAP, satellites launch July 28, 2014, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The ANGELS program is managed by the AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate, located at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. The 45th Space Wing provided launch support for the United Launch Alliance Delta IV vehicle, including weather forecasts, launch and range operations, security, safety, and public affairs. (Courtesy photo/United Launch Alliance)

    AF launches successful satellite mission

    The 45th Space Wing supported a successful United Launch Alliance Delta IV vehicle carrying Air Force Space Command mission assets for the Air Force July 28.

  • Space and Missile Systems Center awards first-of-its-kind hosted payload solutions contract

    The U.S. Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center awarded an indefinite-delivery-indefinite-quantity, or IDIQ, contract under the Hosted Payload Solutions, or HoPS, program, July 10.

  • 55th Strategic Communications Squadron receives top-level awards

    The men and women of the 55th Strategic Communications Squadron recently learned that their dedication to excellence was about to be awarded with the Defense Information Systems Agency's top award.

  • AF satellites to contribute to space neighborhood watch

    The Air Force plans to launch two operational satellites and one experimental satellite into near-geosynchronous Earth orbit July 23. According to Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James, "these operational and experimental systems will enhance the nation’s ability to monitor and assess events regarding our military and commercial systems. In essence, they will create a space neighborhood watch capability.”
  • Glen Loyche shows Academy professors how dining hall food waste is converted into pulp at Mitchell Hall July 15, 2014, at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. Loyche is the Mitchell Hall facility manager. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jason Gutierrez)

    From trash to treasure: Converting Academy waste into renewable energy

    During August 2013, the Defense Department Environmental Security Technology Certification Program funded CDM Smith, a national engineering and construction firm, to test how the U.S. Air Force Academy can reduce energy use and cost at its wastewater treatment plant, and convert food waste from its dining hall into energy.
  • An emptied Tactical Combat Casualty Care Cut Suit shows the surface plate without synthetic organs. The plate sits on top of a person’s chest to protect from damage or cuts from an actual scalpel during combat medical training. The cut suit is a part of the Air Force Medical Modeling and Simulation Training Program at Air Education and Training Command, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas. (Courtesy photo)

    Medical training in hyperreality

    The Air Force Medical Modeling and Simulation Training, or AFMMAST, is improving medical training is by adding hyperreality and high fidelity through the use of the Tactical Combat Casualty Care Cut Suit.
  • Gen. William L. Shelton, commander of Air Force Space Command, testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, July 16, 2014, in Washington, D.C. He shared the panel with Honorable Alan F. Estevez, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics; Robert M. Lightfoot Jr., Associate Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Cristina T. Chaplain, Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, Government Accountability Office; retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Howard J. Mitchell, Vice President, Program Assessments, The Aerospace Corporation; Daniel L. Dumbacher, Professor of Practice, Department of Aeronautics and Aerospace Engineering, Purdue University; and Dr. Yool Kim, Senior Engineer, The RAND Corporation. Together, they provided testimony on, “Assured Access to Space.” (U.S. Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash)

    Air Force will provide assured access to space

    Gen. William L. Shelton, Air Force Space Command commander, stressed the importance of maintaining assured access to space to the Senate Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation during a hearing on the options for assuring domestic access to space, July 16.
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