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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

  • 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

  • Academy hosts mock trial competition

    There were lawyers aplenty as a lawsuit against a toy company went to trial - repeatedly - at the Air Force Academy last weekend.In the end, there were no jury verdicts and no damage awards, just awards and rounds of applause. Only school pride and personal accomplishment were at stake at the

  • Students see stars at AFA observatory

    Roughly 50 students from Falcon Middle School in Colorado Springs visited the Air Force Academy's observatory the evening of Sept. 24 to see a few famous stars.The summer triangle stars Deneb, Vega and Altair were on display, along with the bright bluish stars in the big dipper and, most famously,

  • Newest Aces honored at Heritage House

    Thirteen cadets were recognized at the Dean's Heritage House here Sept. 9 for achieving perfect 4.0 academic GPAs during the Spring 2010 semester.The Fall 2010 Aces List includes nine second-class cadets as well as two third-class cadets and one cadet each from the classes of 2010 and 2011.Four of

  • Former permanent professors return to AFA for Heritage to Horizons Assembly

    Retired permanent professors and deans of the faculty returned to the Air Force Academy for the biennial "Heritage to Horizons" Education Assembly Aug. 26-27.The event marked the largest gathering of retired permanent professors in the Academy's history, with permanent professors who represented a

  • Academy repeats as 'Best in the West' -- U.S. News & World Report

    The Air Force Academy was rated No. 1 in the Regional Colleges-West ranking for the fourth-straight year in U.S. News and World Report's 2011 Best Colleges rankings released Aug. 17.The Academy also earned second place in the nation for best undergraduate engineering specialties of aerospace,

  • Air Force coaches stand out in 2010 academic progress rates report

    Air Force football coach Troy Calhoun, men's basketball coach Jeff Reynolds and track coach Ralph Lindeman were mentioned in the Aug. 5 rollout of the Academic Progress Rates for Division I head coaches in six sports, released by the NCAA. All three coaches have rankings in the high 900s out of a

  • Academy's Airmen ride, march in rodeo parade

    The Air Force Academy's Airmen rode and marched with the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo Parade in downtown Colorado Springs, Colo., July 13, 2010. Proceeds from the annual rodeo are donated to each of the four military installations in Colorado Springs.View the slideshow.

  • 2010 grads take wind energy to battlefield

    Alternative energy goes mobile to the battlefield with a research project cadets are working on for the U.S. Army.Cadets 1st Class John Arvett, Nick Bassett, Robert Hayward and Matt Ludwig, who are electrical engineering majors, teamed with Cadet 1st Class Alex Frank, a mechanical engineering major,