Air Force Space and Missile History Center

Ken Weinhold, Air Force Space and Missile Museum Association vice chairman, talks with Brig. Gen. Ed Wilson, 45th Space Wing commander, at the Air Force Space and Missile History Center. Free public tours of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begin and end at the History Center, located just outside Gate 1. For tour details, call 321-494-5945 or email ccafstours@patrick.af.mil. (Air Force photo/Matthew Jurgens)

Historical and Operational

Brig. Gen. Ed Wilson, 45th Space Wing commander, credited with making tours of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station more accessible to the public, leaves the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse during a tour. The Cape Canaveral Lighthouse is the only fully operational lighthouse owned by the U.S. Air Force and is one of several stops on the tour, which also includes historical and operational space launch complexes. (Air Force photo/Matthew Jurgens)

Tours shine light on Cape

Coast Guard Rear Admiral (Ret.) Bob Merrilees, Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Foundation president, honors Brig. Gen. Ed Wilson, 45th Space Wing Commander, for his support of the landmark lighthouse. The foundation’s farewell to General Wilson coincided with an Aug. 18 public tour of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, now offered by the wing free of charge twice per week, on Wednesdays and Thursdays. For tour details, call 494-5945 or email ccafstours@patrick.af.mil. (Courtesy photo/Ginny Davis, Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Foundation)

Campus Dining

PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- Airman 1st Class Jackie Summers, 45th Comptroller Squadron, gets lunch from Cheri Heywood, Aramark employee, July 7 at Rocket Lanes Bowling Center under the newly initiated campus style dining program. Airman who are on meal card status are able to use their Common Access Cards for meals at 45th Force Support Squadron nonappropriated fund dining venues: Beach House, Manatee Cove Golf Course Clubhouse, Rocket Lanes Bowling Center, and The Tides, in addition to Riverside Dining Facility. (U.S. Air Force photo/Eric Brian)

Radar Open Systems Architecture

Maj. Gen. Edward Bolton Jr., Air Force Director of Space and Cyber Operations, and Brig. Gen. Ed Wilson, 45th Space Wing Commander, cut the ribbon for the new Radar Open Systems Architecture 0.134 radar, south of The Tides, with Col. Gary Henry, Launch and Range Systems Wing Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center. The first ROSA radar to be delivered to the Eastern or Western Range, it features a new transmitter and antenna feed, radar imaging capabilities, and quadruple the output power of its replaced legacy system. ROSA is part of a major modernization program to reduce costs of operations, maintenance and support, increase reliability, and shorten mission turnaround.

DoD Eneiromental Award 2011

CCAFS restoration contractors treat chlorinated solvent source areas in the CCAFS industrial area using injection of emulsifi ed vegetable oil and emulsifi ed zero valent iron with a direct push rig. The technology, which has achieved 99% source eradication at other Wing sites, is carefully monitored and controlled using a See DoD page 3 mobile computerized control system.