New housing is in the works at several Air Force bases: Barksdale AFB, La., Bolling AFB, D.C., Eielson AFB, Alaska, and Langley AFB, Va. The Shreveport Times reports that Barksdale, Bolling, Langley are covered under a single privatized development plan called BLB Housing that will cover construction or renovation of 3,146 housing units, beginning within a year. According to an Eielson release, the Eielson project, which includes 16 four-plexes and three duplexes—70 new homes—will begin this summer.
NASA, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance are all preparing to launch their next-gen rockets from Florida’s Space Coast, two of them before the year is out. One is expected to liberate the U.S. launch enterprise from its reliance on Russian-made RD-180 engines, while all three rockets could eventually carry astronaut crews.