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  • Space & Missile Times to retire ... again

    Vandenberg Air Force Base will be retiring the Space & Missile Times once again while choosing instead to post all news content online Feb. 12. The base paper has gone through many changes over the years, including changes to its appearance and four name changes. Publication of Strategic Air

  • Heart Attacks: All Hearts are NOT Created Equal

    You may have heard that heart disease is the number one cause of death in the United States. What fewer people may know is that women are less likely to survive heart attacks than men. In fact, 38 percent of women compared with 25 percent of men will die within one year after a heart attack,

  • Vandenberg Airmen win at 14th AF

    Team, it gives me great pleasure to recognize several of the men and women of the 30th Space Wing. Vandenberg took four out of nine categories in the 14th Air Force Quarterly Awards, Fourth Quarter 2008: Company Grade Officer: 1st Lt. Miclynn Crail, 2nd Range Operations Squadron Civilian Cat I:

  • Vandenberg successfully launches Delta II

    Mission planners celebrate Vandenberg AFB's first launch of the New Year following the successful launch of a Delta II rocket at 2:22 a.m. today from Space Launch Complex-2 here. The rocket carried a NOAA-N Prime polar-orbiting weather satellite for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

  • Vandenberg Airmen win communications award

    Team, it gives me great pleasure to recognize Senior Airman Andrew Scraper and Tech. Sgt. Frank Walsh, both of the 30th Communications Squadron. They were recently recognized in the Gen. John P. Jumper Warfighter Integration and Communications and Information Awards: Air Force Communications -

  • Delta II launch delayed

    The launch of a Delta II rocket from Space Launch Complex-2 is rescheduled due to a problem with the launch pad.The next launch is scheduled for Thursday at 2:22 a.m., weather permitting.The rocket will carry a NOAA-N Prime polar-orbiting weather satellite for NASA and the National Oceanic and

  • Entertainers join Elmo to help military families find 'new normal'

    Sesame Workshop will air a PBS special Apr. 1 aimed at helping military families cope with changes. Actor/singer Queen Latifah and singer John Mayer will join Elmo to present, "Coming Home: Military Families Cope with Change." The special carries a message for children whose parents suffered a