Nicole Heaton served for four years as a U.S. Air Force Public Affairs officer and is a freelance writer and public relations consultant from Colorado Springs, Colo.

Cadets ‘Learn Space by Doing Space’ in USAFA FalconSAT Program

By Nicole Heaton

The goal of the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) is to develop leaders of character.  For cadets in the academy’s…

A Real-world Teaching Tool in Orbit

By Nicole Heaton

The U.S. Air Force Academy’s Department of Astronautics has proven once again that it is indeed providing cadets the opportunity…

ACWA Program: First-of-a-kind Equipment for a One-of-a-kind Mission

By Nicole Heaton

Tasked with a one-of-a-kind mission to destroy chemical weapons using means other than the baseline incineration method, the U.S. Army…

ACWA Construction Teams Moving Full Steam Ahead

By Nicole Heaton

In the past year, construction efforts at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) in Colorado and the Blue Grass…