Colorado will propose Colorado Springs as the home of the United States Space Academy, a civilian school that President Donald Trump has proposed and NASA would run. The state’s response, which must name a site, is due Nov. 16. Gov. Jared Polis announced the bid on Oct. 23 at America the Beautiful Park in Colorado […]
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Before the Cadets: What the Air Force Bought North of Colorado Springs
Before it was the Air Force Academy, the land north of Colorado Springs held two railroad villages, a governor’s old cattle ranch, a Spanish Colonial estate turned country club, an airfield, a clay pit, a factory and the cabins and graves of homesteaders. Colorado bought it from 159 owners between 1954 and 1957. One of […]