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STS-107

February 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Eleven years ago today, the Space Shuttle Columbia was tragically lost with all hands on reentry. – Mission Commander Col. Richard “Rick” Husband, USAF, a [read more...]

Jesse Brown

February 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Jesse LeRoy Brown was born in 1926 to a schoolteacher and a warehouse laborer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Suffering through the ravages of the Great Depression like [read more...]

STS-51-L

January 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

On this day in aviation history in 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger was lost with all hands shortly after liftoff. The 7-strong crew of STS-51-L included: -Mission [read more...]

Apollo 1

January 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

Today, Milaviate remembers the men of Apollo 1 who lost their lives in a fire in the command module during a training exercise in 1967. Military aviation and manned space [read more...]

The US Army’s Night Stalkers Once Helped Steal an Attack Helicopter From the African Desert

by Ian D'Costa in In History

Back in the 1980s, when it still existed, the Soviet Union maintained a number of “friendly” relationships with a variety of African and Asian nations, mostly for the purposes of selling military hardware to counter the West. One such nation was Libya, which opted to arm and equip its military with a variety of Soviet products, [read more...]