DECEMBER 21, 2021 - It's been two years since a new military branch was created to protect the United States and allied interests in space. The youngest branch of the U.S. military was established on December 20, 2019, with the passage of that year’s National Defense Authorization Act. The U.S. Space Force celebrated its second birthday Monday as the Pentagon's newest branch … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2021
Marines Activate in Support of Operation KULEANA
U.S. Marines and Sailors with Combat Logistics Regiment 3, 3d Marine Logistics Group, board a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules at Kadena Air Base, Japan, Dec. 6, 2021. Marines with CLR-3 are providing support services such as field expedient showers and laundry facilities to the residents of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam affected by the ongoing water issue. 3d MLG, based out of … [Read more...]
Cape Canaveral To Host Annual Space Force 10-miler
DECEMBER 21, 2021 – The United States Space Force inaugural T-Minus 10-Miler will lift-off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station next year, Dec. 10, 2022. This 10-mile race will be a part of the Space Force birthday celebration each year, and will take place surrounded by space launch history, at Cape Canaveral SFS. “Cape Canaveral is quite literally where space launch … [Read more...]
Navy Launches MQ-25 Unmanned Aircraft From Carrier
Boeing employees run diagnostics on the Boeing unmanned MQ-25 aircraft on the flight deck aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). The MQ-25 will be the worlds first operational, carrier-based unmanned aircraft and is integral to the future carrier air wing (CVW). It will provide an aerial refueling capability that extends the range, operational capability and … [Read more...]
Space Force Brings ‘STEMtoSpace’ to Students
DECEMBER 21, 2021 - Space Force’s “STEMtoSpace” outreach campaign started as a small team project in honor of the Service’s first birthday Dec. 20, 2020, designed to link Space Force volunteers with local-area students to talk about the importance of STEM education. The initiative quickly expanded reaching more than 17,000 students across all 50 states in the campaign’s … [Read more...]