Two Air Force officers are among the nine people named Monday to become NASA astronauts. Making the cut from 3,500 applicants were: * Lt. Col. Michael S. Hopkins, 40, a flight test engineer, now assigned to the Pentagon as special assistant to the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...

Lt. Col. Case Cunningham of Denton will serve as commander of the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, commonly known as the Thunderbirds during the 2010 demonstration season, according to an announcement on the Air Force Web site....