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Space pioneers to be recognized, honored AIR FORCE NEWS RELEASE Posted: August 22, 2006 PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. - Gen. Kevin P. Chilton, Air Force Space Command commander, will induct six people into the Air Force Space and Missiles Pioneers Hall of Fame August 24 during an induction ceremony at the Air Force Space Command Headquarters Building. This year's honorees are retired Col. Wilbert F. Craig III, retired Brig. Gen. Maurice A. Cristadoro Jr., retired Maj. Gen. Ben I. Funk, retired Col. Francis J. Hale, retired Lt. Col. Albert W. Johnson, and retired Col. Richard S. Leghorn. Those inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame are significant players - military and civilian - in the advancement of Air Force space and missile programs, said Skip Bradley, AFSPC command historian and project officer for the event. To be considered, they had to have made significant contributions to Air Force programs more than 30 years ago. The Air Force Space Pioneers Award was first given under the sponsorship of the National Space Club in Washington D.C., which in 1989 honored ten key military and civilian leaders in the Air Force space program. In 1997, the program was revitalized and established as an official Air Force award and under AFSPC. A total of 36 pioneers have been inducted into the Air Force Space and Missiles Pioneers Hall of Fame. In recognizing these specific individuals, Dr. Rick Sturdevant, AFSPC deputy command historian said, we honor all those men and women ‹ military, civil servants and contractors ‹ who established the foundations of Air Force missile and space power on which we continually build. "From missile and space systems hardware to space law and space medicine, people associated with the U.S. Air Force have pioneered paths into uncharted territory." |
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The Hubble Space Telescope has become astronomy's crown jewel for knowledge and discovery. The great observatory was placed high above Earth following its launch aboard space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. The astronauts of STS-31 recount their mission in this post-flight film presentation.
Space shuttle Atlantis is delivered to Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B on August 2 to begin final preparations for blastoff on the STS-115 mission to resume construction of the International Space Station.
Just after 1 a.m. local time August 2, the crawler-transporter began the slow move out of the Vehicle Assembly Building carrying space shuttle Atlantis toward the launch pad.