Now, a team of aerospace engineers is applying the principles that keep airplanes aloft to create a new wave-energy system that is durable, extremely efficient, and can be placed anywhere in the ocean, regardless of depth.
A U.S. Air Force Academy space weather experiment heads for the International Space Station aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis after the shuttle lifted off at at 2:28 p.m. EST Nov.
The Air Force has nominated Maj. Gen. Kurt A. Cichowski, vice commander of the Air Force Special Operations Command, for appointment to the rank of lieutenant general and assignment as the Central Intelligence Agency's associate director for military affairs.
A 200-milliJoule pulse laser is being used at the Air Force Academy to determine how "pushing" sulfur into a silicon-based solar cell increases the cell's efficiency.