Patrick Air Force Base News

A reprieve from record-breaking temperatures last month that pushed the heat index above 100 degrees is on tap for July, weather forecasters say.

One of the world's largest aircrafts, with a belly that can hold more than 150 tons of cargo, thundered down the runway and lifted off Tuesday afternoon from Melbourne International Airport.

The wife of a local soldier who died from a brain tumor after being exposed to smoke from garbage-burning pits in Iraq joined more than a dozen Florida soldiers in a class-action lawsuit.

Airmen of the 920th Rescue Wing will hold a small informal ceremony at 10 a.m. Thursday at the base's Memorial Plaza to pay their respects to five fellow airmen who were killed in the 1996 bombing of Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Temperatures in Melbourne reached as high as 99 degrees Monday afternoon, setting a record for the date.

Palm Bay is opening its fire houses as 'cooling stations' to help residents seeking relief from the thick, stifling heat blanketing the Space Coast.

LIVE IMAGES: The image above is from a video camera at launch pad 39A, where shuttle Endeavour is being readied for a 5:40 a.m. liftoff on Wednesday.

NASA on Tuesday plans to finish up repairs to a leaking launch pad vent line and resume a countdown to the launch of space shuttle Endeavour, now set for 5:40 a.m. Wednesday.

More than 300 military and civilian equal opportunity professionals attended the Navy's 2009 Equal Opportunity Advisor and Command Managed Equal Opportunity Symposium May 19-22 at the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute at Patrick Air Force Base.

NORRIS BURKES FOUND his first wartime deployment as a chaplain full of "boredom interrupted by sheer terror." The FLORIDA TODAY "Spirituality" columnist, who will talk about his experiences in Iraq at two free talks in Cocoa and Melbourne this week, said he was fortunate in that the terror was intermittent.

A leatherback bounce-back in Florida during the past two decades appears stuck in the sand along some Florida beaches this year.

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NASA's Orion spaceship and the astronauts onboard might not survive an explosive launch failure of the agency's proposed Ares I moon rocket, analyses by Air Force safety experts show.

Blogger update: The 747 and Atlantis departed Columbus Air Force Base at 4:47 p.m. and are scheduled to arrive at Kennedy Space Center around 6:29 p.m. Weather permitting, the 747 pilot likely will opt to do a flyover of Space Coast beaches between Patrick Air Force Base and the shuttle runway at KSC.

Ride the rails again next week at Stevenson's 2009 Depot Days festival. This year's grand marshall is Loretta Barbee, who has served as the director of the Stevenson Depot Museum for almost 13 years.

Blogger Update 11:02 a.m.: The 747 and Atlantis are taxiing for take-off at Edwards Air Force Base.

Space Coast residents today could get a close-up view of NASA's four-winged wonder: a space shuttle orbiter flying piggyback on a Boeing 747.

They won't be replacing "Fore!" with "Incoming!" anytime soon, but a big change is in store for the 18-hole golf course within the confines of Patrick Air Force Base.

MOUNT Aaron D. Mount has been promoted to the rank of master sergeant in the U.S. Air Force.

Dennis Copemann, with American Legion Post 331, unfurls an American flag during a Memorial Day service at Taft Cemetery in Orlando on Sunday.