Without a military space plane, there is no way the Air Force can become the Air and Space Force.
From August 1998 to February 2000, Myers was commander-in-chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Space Command, and commander of Air Force Space Command, responsible for U.S. defense via space and intercontinental ballistic missile operations.
So, perhaps to show that it is giving space its due, the Air Force held its first space war game here, and even invited reporters inside for a few hours.
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Things have gotten a little more interesting, though, now that the US Air Force Space Command has officially piped in.
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William Shelton, commander of the U.S. Air Force Space Command, said about the spending cuts that took effect March 1.
And in 2007 a survey of around 200 space companies by the Air Force Research Laboratory cited export controls as the highest barrier to foreign markets.
Air Force Space Command operates the SBIRS system.
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"We couldn't be more pleased with the strides we've made in this program and the success of the X-37B vehicle on the first two flights, " said Mr. Richard McKinney, Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force for Space.
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Commercial space launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida and from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, both of which can accommodate bigger rockets and more diverse payloads than the other sites, are subject to military oversight.
"The policy is in place, " Weeden, a former orbital analyst with the U.S. Air Force, told SPACE.com.
In 1998, Brazil's Congress approved a law allowing the air force to shoot down planes that enter Brazilian air space illegally.
Now, with Stratos successfully complete, future space programs from NASA, the Air Force or any other agency has much fresher technology and a more recent collection of data to rely on.
The land-based anti-missile rocket is to be launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific in hopes of destroying a modified Minuteman missile fired into space 20 minutes earlier from Vandenberg Air Force Base, 4, 300 miles (6, 880 kms) away in California.
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The fall to Earth was monitored by the Joint Space Operations Center (JSPOC) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The U.S. Air Force, which leads military space efforts, deserves a lot of credit for working around these and other space problems with which it was saddled by bad management in the 1990s.
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It's a strangely Snow White-esque moment that unfolds minutes after we set up our gear in the conference room of the Leadership Development Center -- a drab, unassuming office space in the middle of Colorado Springs' Peterson Air Force Base that serves as a training facility for 11 months out of the year.
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Her focus included emphasizing Air Force core values, its mission in space, and funding for F-22 fighters.
This appears to be the mindset of the Air Force regarding its experimental X-37B space plane, the billion-dollar robotic vehicle's orbital flight being extended beyond the 270 days it was initially designed for.
Cancellation of most of the space systems associated with the Reagan-era program led the Air Force to lose interest.
The satellite, FalconSat-2, was built by US Air Force Academy cadets to investigate the phenomenon known as "space weather".
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In addition to its travels to the Space Station, SpaceX has recently signed a contract with the United States Air Force for two launch missions in 2014 and 2015, as well as another contract with Spacecom to launch their AMOS-6 satellite in 2015.
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Civilian politicians may not realize what sizable strides the Air Force has made in fusing intelligence and fixing a broken space culture over the past several years, but they will warm to any service that offers an alternative to putting U.S. soldiers in harms way in the years ahead.
At that point, much of the action in missile defense shifted to the Air Force, which was the lead service for military uses of space.
Also on board was Ilan Ramon, a colonel in the Israeli air force who was the first citizen of his country to fly in space.
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Built for American Airlines, NASA acquired the aircraft in 1974 and used it for test flights from Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert and ferry flights to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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In 1996 Lockheed won competitions to build a replacement for the space shuttle, an infra-red satellite-warning system and a new rocket-launcher for the American air force.
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