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Rescue Airmen support historic rocket launch

An Atlas V rocket is prepared for takeoff July 19, 2013 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The launch marked the largest ever payload for an Atlas V rocket. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Anna-Maire Wyant)

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Rescue Airmen support historic rocket launch

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Rescue Airmen support historic rocket launch

An Atlas V rocket takes off July 19, 2013 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. This launch marked the largest ever payload for an Atlas V rocket. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Anna-Maire Wyant)

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Rescue Airmen support historic rocket launch

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Moon over Delta IV & Pave Hawk

The 920th Rescue Wing supported a Delta IV rocket launch May 24, 2013. The launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., lit up the night sky while Wing Airmen safeguarded the hazard zone. (U.S. Air Force photo/Lt. Col. Rob Haston)

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Rescue Airmen support rocket launch

Rescue Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., piloted two HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters, scanning and clearing the beachline and waters that fell within the Eastern Range. The Airmen commenced their mission hours prior to the launch of the Delta-IV Heavy rocket, NROL-15, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Fla. which carried a classified load. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Peter Dean)

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Final Endeavor

A modified Boeing 747 carrying Space Shuttle Endeavor on its back flew over Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. September 19 to its final resting place in California. Air Force Reservists the 920th Rescue Wing are celebrating 50 years of manned space support for their service as guardians to the astronauts during all space shuttle missions. The Airmen were on hand to rescue the astronauts in case of an emergency and the astronauts had to bail out of the shuttle. The space shuttle program ended in July 2011. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Cathleen Snow)

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NASA launches rocket Atlas

After multiple scrubs, United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launches from Complex 41 in the early hours of Aug. 30. Atlas 5 is carrying two heavily shielded 1,400-pound satellites, Radiation Belt Storm Probes, that will fly in tandem through Earth's energetic Van Allen radiation belts in a two-year mission to probe the structure of the huge doughnut-shaped zones, how they are affected by titanic solar storms and the threat they pose to astronauts and costly spacecraft, according to CBS News "Space Place". (United Launch Alliance/Pat Corkery)

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Home at last

A maintenance Airman from the 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., works on the avionics systems of an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter that recently returned from an overseas deployment to Afghanistan. Rescue Wing Airmen were deployed to Camp Bastion providing combat search and rescue. During the year-long effort, they performed more than 800 rescues. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Cathleen Snow)

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Rocket launch support

Air Force Reserve Combat-search-and-rescue Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., returned to PAFB shortly before 9 a.m. after supporting the successful launch of an Atlas V rocket from nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on the 50th Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle mission carrying a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite payload at 8:28 a.m. EDT.(U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Cathleen Snow)

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Night vision

Mike Killian, ARES Institute and AmericaSpace reporter/photographer covers a 920th Rescue Wing rocket launch mission May 22 at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. Aircrew Life Support Airmen issued him night vision goggles to allow him to see during the mission. He flew along with the Airmen on their range clearing mission aboard an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter to support a milestone rocket launch. Several hours prior to a Falcon 9 rocket launch, Airmen secured the Eastern Range for the first ever commercial mission to the International Space Station. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Cathleen Snow)

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Night vision

Aircrew life support technicians from the 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., issued a pair of night vision goggles to Mike Killian, Ares Institute and AmericaSpace.com reporter/photogrpher to prepare him for a flight on a Rescue Wing's night time range-clearing mission aboard an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter May 22. Killian was there to cover the 920th's support for a milestone rocket launch. The Airmen and Killian flew several hours prior to a Falcon 9 rocket launch securing the Eastern Range for the first commercial mission to the International Space Station. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Cathleen Snow)

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Through the lens

Mike Killian, ARES Institute and AmericaSpace reporter/photographer covers a 920th Rescue Wing rocket launch mission May 22 at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. He photographs Airmen as they prep through the night for a range clearing mission aboard an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter to support a milestone rocket launch. Killian flew with the Airmen several hours prior to a Falcon 9 rocket launch securing the Eastern Range for the first ever commercial mission to the International Space Station. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Cathleen Snow)

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Rocket men

Pilots, Capt. Paul Carpenter and Col. Jeffrey Macrander, also the 920th Rescue Wing Commander, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., ready an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter for flight May 22. Aircrew Airmen flew through the night to clear the range prior to the milestone SpaceX Technologies Falcon 9 rocket launch, which will be the first commercial launch to the International Space Station. Rescue Wing Airman have supported rocket launches, manned and unmanned, for the past 50 years. They are on hand to secure the Eastern Range prior to every Space Coast launch. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Cathleen Snow)

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Night launch

Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. ready an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter for flight May 22. Aircrew Airmen flew through the night to clear the range prior to the SpaceX Technologies Falcon 9 rocket launch, which will be the first commercial launch to the International Space Station. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Cathleen Snow)

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Jolly Green supports Dragon

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Media management

Master Sgt. Ben Codallo, aircrew life support technician, 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., fastens a military life preserver onto a Mr. Daniel Todd, owner of Octo-Interactive and Brevard Night Life, to prepare him for a flight on a Rescue Wing range clearing mission aboard an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter May 22 to cover the 920th's support for a milestone rocket launch, a Falcon 9. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Cathleen Snow)

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Into the night

Senior Master Sgt. Omar Rivera, helicopter aerial gunner, 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. readies an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter for flight May 22. He and his aircrew team flew through the night to clear the range prior to the SpaceX Technologies Falcon 9 rocket launch. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Cathleen Snow)

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Night shift

Maintenance Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. worked through the night to prepare two HH-60G Pave Hawk for their range-clearing support mission prior to the successful launch of the first commercial space transportation launch of a Falcon 9 rocket by SpaceX Technologies. After a failed first attempt on May 19, Armed Force Day, the launch successfully lifted off May 22 at 3:44 EDT. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Cathleen Snow)

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Jolly Green supports Dragon

Maintenance, life support and Aircrew Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. came together hours before sunrise to support the successful launch of the first commercial space transportation launch of a Falcon 9 rocket by the civilian company SpaceX Technologies. After a failed first attempt on May 19, Armed Force Day, the launch successfully lifted off May 22 at 3:44 EDT. Rescue Wing Aircrew Airmen took off in two HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters several hours before the launch and cleared the Eastern Range to ensure safety beneath the launch hazard area. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Cathleen Snow)

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