The Minnesota Air National Guard just celebrated its 150th birthday—and the airmen shared the event with Vice President Dick Cheney. As part of the celebration, Cheney presented a Minuteman statue to MSgt. Mark Wasserbauer, honoring the airmen as the ANG Sergeant of the Year.
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.