The first Lockheed Martin Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) lifts off from Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla.
Navy Adm. Samuel J. Paparo Jr. assumed leadership of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, succeeding Navy Adm. John Aquilino at a change of command ceremony, urging action amid China's “increasing intrusive and expansionist claims,” on May 3