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  • Air Force, as separate service, builds the future of military space with SMC

    Although its heritage dates back to August 1, 1907 when the U.S. Army Signal Corps first established an aeronautical division for military aviation, the U.S. Air Force became a separate military service 68 years ago today when President Harry S. Truman signed the executive order while flying aboard

  • SMC honors events of 9/11

    The city of Hawthorne held a ceremony today, commemorating the events of 14 years ago when the peaceful, clear blue skies of New York City, and a sunny morning in Washington, D.C. and rural Pennsylvania were plunged into darkness, shattered by acts of terror.Hosted by Mayor Chris Brown at Hawthorne

  • SMC commander speaks at Hawthorne 9/11 observance

    Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center and Air Force Program Executive Officer for Space at Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, Calif., speaks at the city of Hawthorne's 9/11 annual observance, Sept. 11. The annual observance, held in front of Hawthorne City

  • SMC takes aim and targets fun during Combat Dining Out

    Some came wearing old-style battle dress uniforms or BDUs. Others came in their current Airmen battle uniform or flight suits. Many dressed up like their favorite characters from Star Wars or The Rocketeer, or an episode of M*A*S*H. Some wore outfits that once seen in the waning light of the late

  • MUOS-4 Successfully Launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

    The U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy successfully launched the fourth Lockheed Martin built Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle from Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. at 6:18 a.m. EDT, Sept. 2. "Today's successful

  • MUOS-4 Ready for Launch

    The U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy are scheduled to launch the fourth Lockheed Martin built Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle, Aug. 31, from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The Atlas V launch

  • Air Force extends SAPR services to AF civilians

    The Air Force released a policy memo today allowing Air Force civilian employees who are victims of sexual assault to file restricted and unrestricted reports with their installation's sexual assault response coordinator.The policy is effective immediately and allows SARCs and sexual assault

  • "Double McGuffin" pulled on SMC/ORS and SMC/AD leadership changes

    At the beginning of the 1979 film, The Double McGuffin starring Ernest Borgnine and George Kennedy, narrator Orson Welles informs the movie audience a McGuffin is an object that serves as the focal point of the plot in the thriller genre. This particular film had two such objects -- a suitcase of

  • SMC hosts SecAF, other leaders on transformational innovation

    Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center hosted the Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James, along with other high-ranking officials Aug. 12 to a demonstration of transformational innovation.Through the use of plug-in electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and

 

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