November 9, 1948 - At 12:01 a.m. on Nov. 9, 1948, Offutt Airforce Base gained national prominence as it became the home of Strategic Air Command headquarters. The U.S. Air Force Secretary chose Offutt ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Nebraska’s only astronaut is back in his hometown of Ashland. He’s the new president and CEO of the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum. “I think astronaut has been ...

Staff and visitors to the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum are required to wear masks. The Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum has reopened to the general public, the museum announced ...

Lt. Gen. Jason Armagost recently assumed the role as deputy commander of Air Force Global Strike Command and deputy commander of Air Forces Strategic-Air, U.S. Strategic Command, at Barksdale Air ...

A Desperate Plea for Help. A Terrifying Survival Ordeal. A Bizarre Disappearance, and the Strangest Cold War Mystery You’ve Never Heard Of. It started out as a seemingly routine Strategic Air Command ...

The United States Air Force was only recently surpassed by the Space Force in 2019, making it the youngest of the Department of Defense's (DOD) service branches. Branching off from the US Army in 1947 ...

3 Key Points: The Boeing B-50 Superfortress, an evolution of the WWII-era B-29, led the U.S. Strategic Air Command’s nuclear deterrence fleet in the late 1940s. Featuring a more powerful Pratt & ...

One might also think of the B-47 Stratojet, which was the first pure jet strategic bomber and received its fair share of Hollywood fame thanks to the 1955 movie Strategic Air Command starring Jimmy ...

The U.S. Space Command’s joint operations center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. SpaceCom has assumed responsibility for U.S. missile defense as part of a realignment of missions, taking over an ...

THE date was Aug. 26, 1957. The announcement from the Kremlin was heavy with meaning to the free world’s defenses. The Soviet Union had test-fired its first intercontinental ballistic missile, and as ...