The Air Force said that 1st Lt. Sarah Small, 25, of Herndon, Va., was killed in a motor vehicle accident Sept. 19 while she was participating in Bright Star 2005 in Egypt. Two noncommissioned officers also in the vehicle were injured and taken to a hospital, where they were listed in stable condition. Small was a public affairs officer, assigned to the Air and Space Expeditionary Force Center, Langley AFB, Va. She had been on active duty since 2002.
The Defense Department has no plans to shoot down a spent Chinese Long March 5B rocket booster which is out of control and could reach the surface after re-entry, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reported. The U.S. demonstrated an Anti-Satellite capability in 2008 against one of its own intelligence satellites that…