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  • Innovative Collaboration Paves Way For Efficient Spacecraft Transport

    NAVAL AIR STATION NORTH ISLAND, Calif. – In an unprecedented display of interagency cooperation, First Air Force (Air Forces Space), Detachment 3, alongside the 729th Airlift Squadron and several other key military and NASA entities, have successfully executed a FIT Check/Air Transportability

  • Reservists give Lucy a ride in the sky with NASA mission

    What do members of the 317th Airlift Squadron, the rock band, The Beatles, and NASA have in common?  Well, a Reserve aircrew who flew a seemingly routine mission, July 30, from Colorado to Florida can answer the question.The cargo, aboard a Charleston C-17 Globemaster III, a large white shipping

  • Guardian Angels support NASA launch

    The 58th Rescue Squadron’s Guardian Angels assigned to Nellis Air Force Base made up the three-team Space Flight Support Force distributed amongst Patrick AFB, Fla., Joint Base Charleston, S.C., and JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, in support of the historic launch. 

  • Expanding the Mission

    Nearly 50 years ago, astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins made the journey back from the moon onboard Apollo 11. The men passed into Earth’s atmosphere and made a splash landing in the Pacific Ocean. This was the end of the astronauts’ journey, but it was only the

  • Space and STEM showcased at JBC Air and Space Expo

    Since the 1957 launch of Sputnik, a Russian satellite, Americans have been challenged to step up and become leaders in science, technology, engineering and math -- collectively known as STEM. Air Mobility Command partners with local and public schools to enhance education through STEM

  • Travis delivers NASA InSight Spacecraft

    TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Airmen from the 21st Airlift Squadron and the 860th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, California, loaded and transported the NASA InSight Spacecraft Feb. 28, from Lockheed Martin Space, Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado, to Vandenberg Air Force

  • 721st AMOG supports NASA study in Germany

    The 721st Air Mobility Operations Group provided aircraft ground service support to the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration Armstrong Flight Research Center and to the German Aerospace Agency as they performed a study on biofuels from Jan. 17th to the 19th at Ramstein Air