Used by operators at the 614th Air and Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., the 614 AOC's 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week support provides vigilance of global and theater operations and equips the Joint Functional Component Command for space operations with the tools to conduct command and control of space forces.

Later, during the Korean War, Pyeongtaek Airfield was named K-6 after being repaired and enhanced by the U. S. Air Force to accommodate a Marine Air Group and the 614th Tactical Control Group.

Image: Marine Air Group and the 614th Tactical Control Group, K-6 Air Base. jpg | Marines at K-6 Air Base pose for a photo during the Korean War.

* Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's How Things Fly website

A replica of the Wright Brothers ' wind tunnel is on display at the Virginia Air and Space Center.

Coca-Cola | Coke and Pepsi cans flown aboard STS-51-F on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

The memorial will stand near the National Mall on Maryland Avenue, SW across the street from the National Air and Space Museum.

Launch of Deep Space 1 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17-A on the Delta II | Delta II 7326-9. 5 Star 37FM

* " Filling the Stealth Gap ," in Air and Space Power Journal Fall 2006

* Ground delay program, a traffic flow initiative that is instituted by the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States Air Space System

* Air Force Space & Missile Museum

* Karmėlava ( Air Space Control Centre );

* Introduction to Flight, John D. Anderson, Jr., McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-299071-6 – The author is the Curator of Aerodynamics at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air & Space Museum and Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland.

One of the nine Air Force Space Surveillance System ( formerly NAVSPASUR ) sites is located at Lake Kickapoo ().

This programme came about when Russia agreed to transport one Malaysian to the International Space Station as part of a multi-billion dollar purchase of 18 Russian Sukhoi Su-30MKM fighter jets by the Royal Malaysian Air Force.

In a speech on the steps of the National Air and Space Museum he described long-term plans which would culminate in a manned mission to the surface of Mars.

* Smithsonian's Air & Space Magazine: " The Notorious Flight of Mathias Rust " Comprehensive article about the flight and the political aftermath in Gorbachev's USSR ( 1 July 2005 )

A participant in the U. S. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest and X-20 Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs, Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1962.

# REDIRECT Air Force Space Surveillance System

The Air Force Space Surveillance System, colloquially known as the Space Fence, is a multistatic radar system that detects orbital objects passing over America.

) Although formerly operated by the U. S. Navy and known as NAVSPASUR ( short for " Naval Space Surveillance "), command passed to the Air Force 20th Space Control Squadron on October 1, 2004.

In 2009, the operations and maintenance contract for the day-to-day management and operation of the Fence was awarded to Five Rivers Services, LLC, based out of Colorado Springs, CO. On September 30, 2011, Five Rivers Services was awarded a $ 7, 022, 503 firm fixed price with cost reimbursable line items contract modification to manage, operate, maintain, and logistically support the nine Air Force Space Surveillance System field stations, presumably for Fiscal Year 2012.

The Space Fence is intended to replace the Air Force Space Surveillance System, or VHF Fence, that was transferred from the Navy to the Air Force in 2004.

In situations in which an aircraft becomes a threat while taking off – which gives very little reaction time – a decision on shooting it down may be taken by an Indian Air Force officer not below the rank of Assistant Chief of Air Staff ( Operations ).

Misawa Air Base Security Operations Center ( MSOC )

The Lithuanian Armed Forces consist of the Lithuanian Land Force, Lithuanian Air Force, Lithuanian Naval Force, Lithuanian Special Operations Force and other units: Logistics Command, Training and Doctrine Command, Headquarters Battalion, Military Police.

Lithuanian Air Force Special Operations Element is subordinate to the Unit at the level of operations management. Structure of the SOF is flexible which makes it easy to form squadrons intended for concrete operations and missions from its elements.

On November 9, 2001 the city was officially captured by the Afghan Northern Alliance forces after the Battle of Mazar e Sharif with help from the United States Special Operations Forces and bombing by U. S. Air Force aircraft.

Notable graduates include former U. S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, U. S. Senator John McCain, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Wesley Clark, former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace and Hugh Shelton, former National Security Advisor and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe James L. Jones, former U. S Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki, former U. S. Chief of Naval Operations Elmo Zumwalt, retired Air Force General Arnold W. Braswell, U. S. Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle, World War II submarine officer and best-selling novelist Edward L. Beach, Jr., former military aide to President John F. Kennedy Godfrey McHugh, murdered U. S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, and U. S. Air Force Chief of Staff Norton A. Schwartz.

The Northern Alliance, aided by a joint Special Operations team consisting of Green Berets from the 5th Special Forces Group, aircrew members from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment ( SOAR ), and Air Force Combat Controllers, fought against the Taliban.

Today the PNGDF is a small force numbering around 2, 100 personnel, and consisting of a Land Element, an Air Operations Element and a Maritime Operations Element.

The Air Operations Element is a small air wing operating several helicopters and light transport aircraft.

Today, the PNGDF is a small force numbering around 2, 100 personnel, and consisting of a Land Element, an Air Operations Element and a Maritime Operations Element.

On December 16, 2006 he was transferred by the highly specialized, ICU equipped, Swiss Air Ambulance Bombardier Challenger Jet http :// www. rega. ch /, reportedly made possible and organized in a bold and daring action by the Swiss banker, Pascal Najadi, who was able to convince the REGA Flight Operations over the phone from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ( perhaps because he was an active patron of the REGA Swiss Air Ambulance ) to swiftly approve the decision to fly without any payment guarantees and assemble at highest possible speed within 48 hours the necessary flight plan, specialized doctors, logistics and Vietnam airspace ( Northern Sector ) entry clearances for the Jet to take off from Zurich HQ, via Lahore to Hanoi, then to proceed with the critical patient in full ICU care of specialized Swiss Doctors and immediate family on board, via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Edmonton to Boston, Massachusetts, where the plane was met by US Customs ( thanks to the help of Senator John Kerry ).

Under the HQ element are two SEAL platoons of 16 – 20 men ( two officers, 14 – 16 enlisted SEALs, and sometimes two enlisted EOD Operators ); a company-sized Combat Service Support ( CSS ) and / or Combat Support ( CS ) consisting of staff N-codes ( the Army and Marine Corps use S-codes ); N1 Administrative support, N2 Intelligence, N3 Operations, N4 Logistics, N5 Plans and Targeting, N6 Communications, N7 Training, and N8 Air / Medical.

Troop core skills consist of: Sniper, Breacher, Communicator, Maritime / Engineering, Close Air Support, Corpsman, Point-man / Navigator, Primary Driver / Navigator ( Rural / Urban / Protective Security ), Heavy Weapons Operator, Sensitive Site Exploitation, Air Operations Master, Lead Climber, Lead Diver / Navigator, Interrogator, Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Technical Surveillance, and Advanced Special Operations.

In 1998, IWS was chosen as the military standard for the standardized Air Operations Center.

It was also clear NASA would soon outgrow its practice of controlling missions from its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch facilities in Florida, so a new Mission Control Center would be included in the MSC.

Although the facilities at the range are managed by the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, the Groom facility appears to be run as an adjunct of the Air Materiel Command Air Force Flight Test Center ( AFFTC ) at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, around southwest of Groom, and as such the base is known as Air Force Flight Test Center ( Detachment 3 ).

* 2009 – Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.

All the aircraft were transported from Moldova to the National Air Intelligence Center ( NAIC ) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio in C-17 Globemaster III transport planes over a period of two weeks.

More prosaically, Clark cites Bill Moore, who asserts that " the Men in Black are really government agents in disguise ... members of a rather bizarre unit of Air Force Intelligence known currently as the Air Force Special Activities Center ( AFSAC ) ... As of 1991, the AFSAC, headquartered in Fort Belvoir, Virginia ," and " under the operational authority of Air Force Intelligence Command centered at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas.

After teaming up with Emery Roth and Sons on the design of the World Trade Center, they teamed up again on other projects including new defense buildings at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D. C.

In February she suffered a fall at her Bel Air home and was taken to St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California.