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  • AFRL's Mission to Mars program takes flight

    Thirty-seven schools and 1,048 fifth graders recently simulated life on Mars and built their own life support systems. The Air Force Research Laboratory La Luz Academy Mission to Mars program celebrated its 22nd year on April 22. Students from across New Mexico gathered at the Albuquerque Convention

  • Tips to break a sugar habit

    Sugar is a simple carbohydrate that your body uses for fuel, but it has no other nutritional value and has been shown to have addictive properties. Today the typical American consumes more than 140 pounds of sugar a year, compared to only 10 pounds per year in the 1800's.  And it's no wonder, as

  • Base celebrates 75th anniversary with banquet, golf

    Whether swing dancing, swinging a golf club or just getting in the swing of an evening out, Kirtland Air Force Base personnel and community partners celebrated the base's 75th anniversary with a golf tournament and banquet Saturday."History makes you smarter, but heritage makes you prouder," said

  • AFRL La Luz rocket team heading back to nationals

    Qualification for nationals in the Team America Rocketry Challenge no easy feat.However, a team of eighth-graders at the Air Force Research Laboratory's La Luz Academy at Kirtland Air Force Base has done it -- twice."I feel really lucky to be with these groups of kids," said team mentor Jacob

  • AFSEC trains international flight safety officers

    Twenty-two people from 15 nations have been learning how to make aviation safer and figure out what went wrong in aircraft mishaps at Kirtland Air Force Base.The Air Force Security Assistance Training Program International Flight Safety Officer Course, run by the Air Force Safety Center (AFSEC),

  • Kirtland joins 'National Drug Take-Back' initiative April 29-30

    Team Kirtland members who have unused or expired medications will have an opportunity to get rid of them safely this month.The semiannual Drug Enforcement Agency National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day is scheduled for April 29 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and April 30 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Drop off

  • AFRL’s Directed Energy Directorate introduces new director

    Dr. Kelly Hammett was welcomed as the new director of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate at a ceremony at the AFRL Conference Center April 25. He was also promoted to the Senior Executive Service at the ceremony."It's with a sense of humility and honor that I'm here,"

  • AFRL program helps 1,000 students simulate life on Mars

    More than 1,000 fifth graders from more than 40 New Mexico schools will take part in one of the state's premier Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics events this week--the Air Force Research Laboratory's Mission to Mars. The event will take place April 22 at the Albuquerque Convention