As an Air Force psychiatrist put it: `` You can't have dry runs on this one ''.

He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.

to the SAC command and control post, forty-five feet below the ground at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska ; ;

Air Force forward headquarters in Europe and in the Pacific, which control tactical fighters on ships and land bases ; ;

the Army, Navy and Air Force, among others, may question Secretary Freeman's claim that the high estate of United States agriculture is the `` strongest deterrent '' to the spread of communism.

Sen. Case Aj, has received a nice `` thank you '' note from a youngster he appointed to the Air Force Academy in Colorado.

Air Force life is great, the cadet wrote, `` though the fourth-class system is no fun ''.

The American Registry Of Pathology operates as a cooperative enterprise in medical research and education between the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the civilian medical profession on a national and international basis, under such conditions as may be agreed upon between the National Research Council and The Surgeons General of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

In addition, their establishment made it unnecessary to begin publication of a contemplated Air Force medical bulletin.

This project was carried out under sponsorship of the Ballistic Missile Division of the Air Research and Development Command, U.S. Air Force, and had as its goal the investigation of the transport by diffusion of the heat energy of chemical binding.

and an Air Force of 91 combat wings and 825,000 men.

Basic long-line communications in Alaska are now provided through Federal facilities operated by the Army, Air Force, and Federal Aviation Agency.

A project for the Air Force has been completed in which the NAIR infrared detecting device was developed for area monitoring of noxious or dangerous gases.

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has provided financial assistance in the early stages of the Institute's program.

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

The Royal Air Force had but a single light anti-aircraft squadron and two balloon units available.

division five, by the Air Force followed by 11 states.

`` We're just real happy for the players '', Coach Bill Meek said of the 9-7 victory over the Air Force Academy.

He broke that boy ( Air Force fullback Nick Arshinkoff ) in two and knocked him loose from the football ''.

The game players saw the Air Force film Monday, ran for 30 minutes, then went in, while the reserves scrimmaged for 45 minutes.

Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Robert F. McDermott will entertain at a black tie dinner Wednesday, May 3, in the Officers' Club at the Air Force Academy.

A young real estate salesman, Kern first got seriously interested in the problems posed by Communism when in the Navy Air Force.

On the U.S.'s island base of Okinawa, Task Force 116, made up of Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force units, got braced to move southward on signal.

Soviet-built thrusters were introduced to the West in 1992 after a team of electric propulsion specialists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Glenn Research Center, and the Air Force Research Laboratory, under the support of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, visited Soviet laboratories and experimentally evaluated the SPT-100 ( i. e., a 100 mm diameter SPT thruster ).

Government and government funded centers include NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA's Glenn Research Center, the Air Force Research Laboratory ( Edwards AFB, CA ), and The Aerospace Corporation.

Designated as the Air Force Test Center ( AFTC ), Edwards is home to the 412th Test Wing, the United States Air Force Test Pilot School, and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.

Contained inside Edwards Air Force Base is NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center ( DFRC ) where modern aircraft research is still active ( e. g. the Boeing X-45 ).

The F-1 was an outgrowth of the Air Force E-1 engine research program that transitioned into NASA's Saturn V rocket.

NASA's SOFIA program relocated its operation to this hangar at Site 9 from Edwards Air Force Base.

The 15th Air Base Wing, host unit at Hickam Field, supported the Apollo astronauts in the 1960s and 1970s ; Operation Homecoming ( return of prisoners of war from Vietnam ) in 1973 ; Operation Babylift / New Life ( movement of nearly 94, 000 orphans, refugees, and evacuees from Southeast Asia ) in 1975 ; and NASA's space shuttle flights in the 1980s and 1990s.

A mechanical engineering graduate of Purdue University, he joined the United States Air Force and was selected as a member of NASA's Project Mercury space program.

NASA's early manned spaceflights, Mercury and Gemini, were prepared for launch from Cape launch pads LC-5, LC-14 and LC-19 by U. S. Air Force crews.

His efforts to cover up Jeannie's antics, because of his fear that he would be dismissed from the space program if her existence were known, brings him to the attention of NASA's resident psychiatrist, US Air Force Colonel Dr. Alfred Bellows.

The result, Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar, was to have been the first orbital spaceplane, but was canceled in the early 1960s in lieu of NASA's Project Gemini and the U. S. Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory program.

Charles Gordon Fullerton ( born October 11, 1936 ) is a retired United States Air Force officer, a former USAF and NASA astronaut and retired research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California.

Roy Dubard Bridges, Jr. ( born July 19, 1943, in Atlanta, Georgia ) is an American aviator, retired United States Air Force officer, former NASA astronaut and the former director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center and Langley Research Center.

When informed of his selection to NASA's Astronaut Program in 1980, he was serving as the Deputy Program Manager ( Acquisition ) for the AV-8 program at the Naval Air Systems Command in Washington, D. C.

As if this were not enough, NASA's own engineers had started the design of their own Nova design series, planning to use it in the direct ascent profile similar to the Air Force's approach.

The northern portion, from Vincent ( south of Palmdale ) to Route 395, is legislatively named the Aerospace Highway, as the highway serves Edwards Air Force Base, once one of the primary landing strips for NASA's Space Shuttle.

In Rosamond, the highway passes close to Edwards Air Force Base, which is used as one of the main landing strips for NASA's Space Shuttle, and as the base for the X-15 and many other air and spacecraft.

Between 1959 and 1961, Project Mercury capsules were tested at Wallops in support of NASA's manned space flight program before astronauts were launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

The RS-68 had initial testing done at Air Force Research Lab, Edwards AFB and later at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center.

US Air Force Lt. Col. John " Shorty " Powers popularized the expression " A-ok " while NASA's public affairs officer for Project Mercury, attributing it to astronaut Alan Shepard during his Freedom 7 flight.

For many years the United States Air Force maintained a missile tracking station near High Rock, which was used mainly in connection with all launches from Cape Canaveral FL and NASA's manned space flights.

The program was a joint effort between NASA's Langley Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California and Northrop Grumman.