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MOL USAF

What Might Have Been: Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) Aboard MOL, Air Force astronauts would have conducted surveillance, and scientific research, in orbit

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The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was the U.S. Air Force’s most ambitious spaceflight program in the mid- to late- 1960s. It came along when the United States was just finding …

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Neil Armstrong on the Moon

A ‘Pretty Quiet Guy’ Calls the Nation’s Space Program ‘Embarrassing’

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Neil Armstrong was a “pretty quiet guy,” even when flying jets in the Korean War, says a shipmate. Since he became first to walk on the moon on July 20, …

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Air Force X-20 Dyna-Soar

What Might Have Been: X-20 Dyna-Soar The Air Force's cancelled spaceplane was decades ahead of its time

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Decades before the space shuttle, U. S. Air Force officers and scientists were working on the Dyna-Soar, a single-pilot, reusable spaceplane that would have been boosted aloft by a Titan …

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Nanomissile

NanoMissile A new way to orbit

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Since the launch of Explorer 1, America’s first Earth-orbiting satellite, in 1958, the majority of the payloads orbited by the United States have been launched on modified military ballistic missiles. …

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A NASA graphic of objects in Earth orbit. NASA image

Scheduled Service GSA’s IT Schedule 70 brings market competition to satellite services acquisition, but a veteran executive asks, does it provide best value?

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In the highly likely event you’ve never heard of the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Information Technology Schedule 70, you’re not alone. IT Schedule 70 is the federal government’s primary contractual …

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SMDC-ONE NanoSatellite

Nanosatellite: Size Matters

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Back at the dawn of the Space Age in 1958, the limited “throw-weight” of U.S. boosters used to loft payloads into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) meant that the first …

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Charles Bolden

Interview with NASA Administrator Lt. Gen. Charles F. Bolden (USMC-Ret.)

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Charles F. Bolden’s career as a naval aviator began at the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated in 1968 and accepted a commission as second lieutenant in the Marine …

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Inmarsat-4 satellite

Any Conditions, All Resiliency An Interview With Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, Inmarsat President of Government Services

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As the events of May 1 unfolded in a compound north of Islamabad, Pakistan, President Obama and his national security advisors watched them in real time in the White House …

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SBIRS GEO

Countdown Under way for SBIRS GEO-1

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Countdown procedures are well under way for the launch of a first-of-its kind spacecraft that will utilize sophisticated scanning and staring sensors to provide significantly improved capabilities for tomorrow’s warfighters. …

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Cadets and instructors fabricate the FalconSAT-5 satellite

Cadets ‘Learn Space by Doing Space’ in USAFA FalconSAT Program

The goal of the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) is to develop leaders of character.  For cadets in the academy’s Department of Astronautics, those leadership skills are employed before they …

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