After a four-year hiatus, the Wings over Wayne Air Show has once again returned to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.
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Project Baker, Flight 19, and the Banana River Bounce: Patrick Air Force Base Turns 80
The narrow strip of land sandwiched between the Banana River and Atlantic Ocean has hosted a military presence for 80 years. Volunteer historian Roger McCormick shares stories from Naval Air Station Banana River / Patrick Air Force Base.
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SpaceX Launches STP-2 atop a Falcon Heavy
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy delivers a plethora of payloads to orbit during its first Department of Defense mission.
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What Do SBIRS-GEO-3, Gemini VII and Bumper 7 All Have in Common?
An Atlas V rocket, flying in the 411 configuration lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday, January 19, 2018. The logo on the fairing clearly said SBIRS-GEO-4, but the satellite inside the fairing was the third Space-Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS-GEO-3) satellite off the production line. This isn't the first time that a mission launched out of sequence. Gemini-7 launched before Gemini-6. Bumper-8 launched before Bumper-7. And now, the 4th SBIRS-GEO launched one year before the third SBIRS-GEO.
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Stunning, full color photo book covering every east coast launch spanning 2014-2015, including the first-ever powered landing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
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