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  • Cadet-built FalconSAT-5 to launch Nov. 19

    Years of work will rocket into orbit when the Academy's latest cadet-built satellite, FalconSAT-5, launches from Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, at 6:24 p.m. Mountain Time Nov. 19.The mission, dubbed STP-S26 for the Department of Defense Space Test Program's 26th mission, will carry six small

  • Air Force upsets No. 3 Yale, 4-3

    Air Force scored four unanswered goals in the third period for a 4-3 win over third-ranked Yale in a non-conference college hockey game Nov. 14 in front of a sellout crowd at the Academy's Cadet Ice Arena.Air Force, 3-6 overall, handed Yale its first loss of the season after five straight wins. Yale

  • Academy firefighters win 3 world titles

    Air Force Academy firefighters added three world titles to their trophy collection, this time from the World Firefighter Combat Challenge XIX Nov. 8-13.During the 2010 firefighter challenge season, the Air Force Academy firefighters won first place in three categories: women's relay team, women's

  • Falcons dominate Lobos, 48-23

    Air Force dominated New Mexico with their rushing offense, beating the Lobos 48-23 in the final home game of the season at Falcon Stadium.Senior Day at the Academy proved too much for New Mexico to handle as the Falcons totaled 461 yards to the Lobos' 258 in the crushing defeat, showing why the

  • Academy puts on a show at parade

    Spectators at this year's Veterans Day parade in downtown Colorado Springs witnessed how the Air Force Academy rolls - down Tejon Street in a cadet chapel, of course.The typical "parade right" and "parade left" commands were replaced by parade Tejon. And because top brass wanted the Academy to put

  • Community puts talents on display

    There's just something about the Air Force Academy that nurtures people's flare for the creative.Anyone who thinks otherwise just needed to drop by the Milazzo Center Nov. 3 for the Academy's Artist, Craftsman and Photography Show.Savory refreshments and scintillating artwork awaited visitors, and

  • Grads react to CIC victory

    For the first time in eight years, the U.S. Air Force Academy claims ownership of the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy, a symbol of military academy football supremacy. Capts. Joel Buelow and Nathan Olsen were both seniors on the Academy's 2002 CIC winning football team and they shared their thoughts on

  • One cadet's connection to the World Series

    A cadet sits in the Air Force Academy Library. He is leader among his peers, commander of his Cadet Squadron. He faces the terrazzo where classmates and friends pass by under the cold Colorado sunshine. The amount of time until his graduation can be counted in months now, not years. At the same

  • 10th ABW announces Veterans Day hours

    The 10th Air Base Wing released a list Nov. 9 of services that will be closed or have reduced services Veterans Day, Nov. 11.The Barry Goldwater Visitor Center will remain open during normal hours. The High Country Inn Dining Facility near the Community Center will be open to retirees for breakfast

  • Academy honors former department head with professorship

    Senior Air Force Academy leaders joined Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley in honoring a former national security adviser and Academy political science professor during a dinner in Washington, D.C., Oct. 27.The dinner, honoring retired Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, commemorated the establishment