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Space Force’s Only Guardian-Astronaut Reflects on Journey from Jets to Space

June 6, 2025 | By Unshin Lee Harpley
Col. Nick Hague, the first active-duty Guardian to launch into space, urges more Space Force troops to learn from NASA.

Deptula, Chilton Earn Historical Foundation Honor

May 23, 2025 | By Juanita Henry
The Air Force Historical Foundation honored a pair of storied Airmen with lifetime achievement awards at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center May 22.

F-22 Pilot Swaps in for Guardian at International Space Station

March 17, 2025 | By Unshin Lee Harpley
An F-22 pilot with more than 200 combat hours in the Middle East is trading places on the International Space Station with the first Space Force Guardian to ever launch into orbit. Air Force Maj. Nichole Ayers safely arrived at the ISS early March 16, ...

New Airmen Train for Astronaut Recovery to Keep Up with Spaceflight Surge 

Feb. 14, 2025 | By David Roza
As the number of crewed spaceflights ticks up, the Air Force expects to train more of its C-17 transport crews to help pluck astronauts out of the water as part of its Human Space Flight Support mission

The Case for More Money for Space 

Feb. 7, 2025 | By Maj. Gen. Thomas D. Taverney, USAF (Ret.)
Creating the Space Force to counter China and Russia answered a rising threat. Now investments are needed to ensure space superiority. The first Space Race began in October 1957 with the Soviet Union’s successful launch of Sputnik, the first man-made...

Space Force X-37 Aerobraking Might Inform Future Satellite Design

Oct. 11, 2024 | By David Roza
“Watch me do this kickflip” is essentially what top Space Force officials said on Oct. 10 when they announced the secretive X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle will soon start aerobraking, a maneuver where an orbiting space vehicle dips into the atmosphere...

First Guardian Launches into Space Aboard NASA Mission

Sept. 30, 2024 | By Unshin Lee Harpley
For the first time in the Space Force’s young history, an Active-Duty Guardian launched into orbit this weekend, where he will take on a NASA mission at the International Space Station.

Air Traffic Control For Drones? Air Force Tests Out New System

July 22, 2024 | By David Roza
The Air Force achieved a milestone in May by testing out a new system for controlling high volumes of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) in military airspace.

Maj. Gen. Joe Engle, X-15 Pilot and Shuttle Astronaut, Dies at 91

July 11, 2024 | By John A. Tirpak
Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Joe Henry Engle, test pilot, Apollo-era astronaut, and the only American to fly two different winged vehicles into space, died July 10 at the age of 91. Engle flew more than 185 different aircraft—38 of them fighter/attack types—and amassed more ...

Apollo 8 Astronaut, Ambassador, and Air Force Maj. Gen. William Anders Dies

June 10, 2024 | By John A. Tirpak
Astronaut William Anders, who flew around the moon on Apollo 8 and took the iconic “Earthrise” photo, died in a plane crash June 7 at the age of 90. Across his life he was an Air Force pilot and general, an ambassador, head of the ...

Our New President & CEO’s 3 Key Visions for AFA

June 7, 2024
“There are not a lot of things that could take me out of retirement. But this was it,” Field said.

Why The First Guardian to Launch into Space Is Taking Sheet Music with Him

March 29, 2024 | By David Roza
When Col. Nick Hague becomes the first Guardian to launch into space later this year, he will be taking a special set of sheet music along with him. 

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