Author: Tom Roeder, The Gazette

The Army has battled for more than 15 years to get its 1st Space Brigade a home on Fort Carson. The unit moved into the post Thursday amid ceremony that coincided with the closing of the Space Symposium. But its soldiers, who help other units access space services and manage a constellation of communications satellites,…

The military will evaluate several factors as it decides where to place the U.S. Space Command. Here’s how the six sites named as finalists Tuesday stack up on various criteria listed in government documents: Cost: Colorado Springs has an easy lead here, because it is alhome to the military’s top space units. So facilities required to…

Amid the Pentagon’s full-court press at the Space Symposium to establish a Space Force, stars appeared to be aligning Tuesday for Colorado to call much of it home. Congressional sources at the symposium confirmed that three bases in Colorado Springs – half of the six being considered – are finalists to house the new U.S.…

With nearly 40,000 visitors expected over four days, the planet’s largest space trade show kicked off Monday at The Broadmoor, and businesses large and small were working to cash in. With a growing military emphasis on satellites, a drive to send astronauts to Mars and a booming economy for orbiting entrepreneurs, organizers say the 35th…

Neon-clad dancers will greet rocket scientists, space experts and military brass Monday night in the opening ceremony as the Space Symposium kicks off its 35th year in Colorado Springs. But the bulk of attendees during the symposium’s four-day run at The Broadmoor are looking forward to answers Tuesday, when leaders from acting Defense Department Secretary…

A new license plate could be on its way for Colorado veterans courtesy of a measure winding its way through the state Senate. The measure, Senate Bill 19-205, would create a special plate for women who served to go along with the state’s 38 other plates that honor the military. Colorado, with its many veteran…

A major renovation of the Air Force Academy’s cadet chapel is on hold indefinitely after $68 million slated for the project was re-allocated for fixing hurricane  damage at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson announced the change Wednesday on Twitter in a plea for hurricane funding to rebuild Tyndall, which suffered…

The Pentagon’s advisory committee on women in uniform says the military could recruit and retain more women if leaders put an end to sexual harassment and paid more attention to families. The report issued last week by the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Service says the Pentagon also needs better outreach efforts to…