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  • AFRL unit gets new commander

    Col. David "Goldy" Goldstein assumed command of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate and Phillips Research Site from Col. William "Bill" Cooley during a June 10 ceremony presided over by AFRL commander Maj. Gen. William N. McCasland.Goldstein served the past two and a half

  • AFRL gains national recognition for STEM outreach

    The Department of Defense needs to produce enough high-caliber science, technology, engineering and mathematics talent to ensure the U.S. maintains superiority in national defense. Fortunately, innovative Air Force STEM programs across the country are making a difference. The Air Force Research

  • Students tackle varied challenges at Mars Mission Link-up

    A mission to Mars would mean providing a sustainable food source, oxygen and water supplies, in addition to needing a form of transportation and recreational activities while on the planet. These are just a few of challenges students at the Mars Mission Link-up Day were asked to tackle. The event,

  • AFRL opens new space research buildings

    In a dual-ceremony event March 26, two Air Force Research Laboratory buildings dedicated to space sensor research and development and space radiation effects were featured at a ribbon-cutting and a groundbreaking. As part of a lab revitalization project at the laboratory, the Space Sensors

  • Students launch model rockets with AFRL, CAP

    For many middle school students, the idea of being able to work with scientists and launch a rocket is thrilling ... and often unattainable. With help from the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Civil Air Patrol, two Albuquerque middle schools are at rocket-launch phase within the Starbase 2.0

  • AFRL physicist traces career to scientist mom, astronaut

    "My mom and Sally Ride are two big reasons I became a scientist," said Capt. Katrina Schweiker, of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate. "When I was six years old, my dad read me a bedtime story about what it was like to be an astronaut that featured Sally Ride. That

  • AFRL scientist is a leader in space and STEM outreach

    Dr. Stacie Williams is a leading scientist and science, technology, engineering and math educator at the Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate's telescope observatory site on Maui, Hawaii. She is a soft-spoken dynamo who skillfully juggles a myriad of professional

  • AFRL scientist recovers ancient texts

    "What Lies Beneath" is a thriller movie made in 2000, with Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford as a well-off couple who experience a haunting that uncovers secrets about their past. The Air Force Research Laboratory's Dr. Keith Knox has been looking into 'what lies beneath' for more than 20 years.

  • Giving thanks

    About 250 students, faculty and family members of the Detachment 1, 342nd Training Squadron's Combat Rescue Officer/Pararescue school at Kirtland AFB enjoyed a Thanksgiving meal Nov. 14 courtesy of the unit's key spouses, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Federal Credit Union and JR's

  • AFRL plays major role in historic near-space jump

    For more than nine minutes Oct. 14, an international audience watched as Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner egressed from a capsule 128,000 feet above the earth and fell toward the planet reaching speeds of 834 miles per hour, to become the first person to break the sound barrier outside a