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Participants in Rocket Launch aim for their homemade devices to reach great heights and stay aloft as long as possible.

According to the Air Force Global Strike Command, a Minuteman 3 missile that will be used in a test launch next week will be from Minot Air Force Base.

Balfour Beatty Communities, LLC in partnership with Hensel Phelps Construction Company, has completed the $158 million initial development period for military family housing at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, California.

He was a leader of both the Cub Scouts Pack No. 39 and Boy Scouts Troop No. 11, and he coached soccer and baseball.

The man who was supposed to lead the Air Force's sex assault prevention efforts will stand trial July 18 in Arlington, Va., on a charge of sexual battery.

The agency says it has concluded after numerous attempts to resolve the technical issue that Radarsat-1 is no longer operational after more than 17 years of service.

Rape is center stage this week after the dramatic rescue of three women from close to a decade of imprisonment in a house on a quiet street in Cleveland.

McCaskill, D-Mo., now is blocking the Obama administration's nomination of Lt. Gen. Susan Helms to take over as vice commander of the Air Force's Space Command.

Tech. Sgt. Alex Gaud-Torres checks out his target during the Warrior Games training camp held in Colorado Springs, Colo., Apr.

If the Pentagon decides it needs an East Coast missile defense site, it should build the multi-billion dollar facility in Northern or Central New York, U.S. Sen.

A female Air Force general has run afoul of Congress for granting clemency to a convicted sex offender without any public explanation, the latest case to raise fundamental questions about how the military justice system handles sex crimes .

According to the Wright Patterson Air Force base , the flying bomb hit Mach 4.8 about 26 seconds after being released from a B-2H at 50K feet, at which point its air-fed scramjet brought it to 60,000 feet while achieving hypersonic flight.

In his latest TV commercial, Michael Clayton jumps off Mayan ruins, plunges off a cliff, swims to a speedboat, skydives out of a plane and parachutes into a moving convertible - all while dressed like Indiana Jones.

Russian strategic bombers conducted flights near the U.S. defense zone close to northern Alaska and the Aleutian Islands last week, Moscow's latest incident of nuclear saber-rattling against the United States, according to defense and military officials.

Mark J. Faulstich was promoted from Major to Lieutenant Colonel, United States Air Force on February 28th, 2013 at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, CO.

Meanwhile, Breitbart.com just keeps churning out the outrage fodder for the conservative religionists, with this ridiculous distorted article entitled: PENTAGON MAY COURT MARTIAL SOLDIERS WHO SHARE CHRISTIAN FAITH!!! We notice that this silly piece of agit-prop is credited to a certain Ken Klukowski, whose name we haven't noticed at Breitbart ... (more)

The Lompoc Record reports that the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph spacecraft - called IRIS for short - reached Vandenberg Air Force Base last week after a journey from its manufacturing site at a Lockheed Martin facility in Palo Alto.

The test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile out of Vandenberg Air Force Base is still on hold because of ongoing tensions between North Korea and the United States.

A new agreement made between the United States and Australia represents the first in what U.S. Strategic Command's commander hopes will be many that promote transparency in the space domain.