The reason Navy’s 2022 Army-Navy game uniform honors NASA
Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, was a Navy man. He served as a fighter pilot during the Korean War before becoming a Navy test pilot…
NASA has a SWAT team, and they’re good
If you think it’s hard getting tickets to a summer blockbuster on opening night, try getting into Kennedy Space Center these days to see a Space Shuttle launch.
After two and a half years of anticipation, people around the world want to …
MIGHTY 25: Naval officer Kayla Barron is serving us in the oceans and the stars
Lt. Commander Kayla Barron never dreamed she’d be an officer on a naval submarine – let alone in space. But this U.S. Naval Academy graduate has always committed to shooting…
Korean War vet and Gemini and Apollo astronaut James McDivitt dies at 93
James Alton McDivitt was born on June 10, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. During the Korean War, he joined the Air Force and served as…
The complete guide to Navy bases in Virginia
Wondering about your next Navy base in Virginia? There are tons of Virginia Navy bases, and all of them are equally important. Of course, you’re probably most familiar with Norfolk…
WATCH: NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in a planetary defense test
It sounds like something out of science-fiction, but it’s very real. In 2021, NASA launched its Double Action Redirection Test from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California and sent it on…
This Army helicopter pilot and doctor is going to the International Space Station
Army Lt. Col. Francisco “Frank” Rubio was selected for NASA astronaut training in 2017. On September 21, 2022, Rubio is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard…
These NASA nerds made a Franken-bomber, but they weren’t the first to do it
Recently, NASA made the news when its engineers managed to cobble together a new WB-57 Canberra out of parts from multiple other planes. This is a particularly notable achievement as …
This plane left the SR-71 Blackbird in the dust
The SR-71 Blackbird was the fastest military jet that has ever taken to the skies. But there was a plane that not only went twice as fast, but it also went much higher.
That speedy plane was the North American X-15.
The X-15 was on…
Today in military history: NASA is formed
On July 29, 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration — or NASA — was established. NASA was created in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik One in 1957….