Launch support The Air Force’s 45th Space Wing supported NASA’s successful launch of Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, April 18, 2017. In a Jan. 12, 2018, meeting, Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan and Japan's minister of state for space policy met to discuss the importance of space to the mutual defense of their nations and how the United States and Japan can expand cooperation in that domain. Photo courtesy of United Launch Alliance SHARE IMAGE: Download Image: Full Size (0.49 MB) Photo By: jeff Spotts VIRIN: 170418-O-ZZ999-013A.JPG Photo Gallery