Plans to build a new school at Mountain Home Air Force Base come several months after a ceremony officially recognized Stephensen Elementary School the recipient of the national Purple Star School designation in honor of its support to military-connected students whose families live at the base.

Photo by Brian S. Orban

Six months after plans came together to secure more than $6.4 million to build a second elementary school at Mountain Home Air Force Base, federal lawmakers approved this funding as part of a national Community Project Funding effort.

Included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, members of the House of Representatives approved this measure on a 341-88 vote.

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Richard Koelsch poses in front of the Artemis II spacecraft as it proceeds to the launch pad at the Cape Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Courtesy photo

A graduate from Mountain Home High School continues to lead efforts to return humanity back to the Moon as part of a manned mission scheduled to begin this week.

Richard Koelsch, a 1998 graduate of Mountain Home High School, became part of the NASA team leading the Artemis II mission to send four astronauts to orbit the Moon for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission that ran from Dec. 7 to 19, 1972.

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