On January 15, 2025, the U.S. Air Force conducted a large-scale readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, emphasizing the operational capabilities of the F-22A Raptors and F-15C Eagles. This exercise demonstrated the strategic importance of Kadena as a critical hub for U.S....
Tim served in the U.S. Army for 25 years as an Army aviator and experimental test pilot. During his military career, he was deployed to Operations Desert Shield and Storm, commanded an AH-64 Attack Helicopter Company, and served as the Developmental Test Director for the Army’s Comanche ...
Yes, Space Force is actively recruiting civilians and transfer service members to join their ranks. Currently, the most direct path for interested parties is to go from the Air Force to Space Force (and in limited cases from the Navy or Army to Space Force). However, the specifics of ...
Feb. 28: US launches the Discoverer-1 reconnaissance satellite (a.k.a. Corona) into a polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force base. March 3: US Army's Juno-2 rocket lifts off with the 6.1-kilogram Pioneer-4 lunar flyby spacecraft. Because the second stage fires one second longer than pl...
Lieutenant Laurelia Saunders, the mission’s commander, had been in the US Army Air Force before transferring to NASA. Born in 1931, she became obsessed with flight from a very early age and was by all accounts an excellent pilot, scoring 11 kills in the World War before becoming a test...
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The closest we have come to such discussion has been the occasionally recurring proposal to spin off a military Space Force from the Air Force (much as the Air Force was itself spun off from the Army). On the civil side, the model of NASA as a unified agency has been largely immune ...
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Examples include theBell X-1, an experimental aircraft developed jointly by theNational Advisory Committee for Aeronautics(NACA, the predecessor to NASA) and the U.S. Army Air Forces, and the U.S. Air Force (USAF). On Oct. 14th, 1947, this aircraft flew its fiftieth sortie, piloted by ...
Rising levels of antimicrobial and pesticide resistance increasingly undermine human health and systems for biomass production, and emphasize the sustainability challenge of preserving organisms susceptible to these biocides. In this Review, we introduce key concepts and examine dynamics of biocide susceptibili...