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Edwards Air Force Base

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Edwards Air Force Base

Edwards AFB is very famous as THE American military flight test center, home to Chuck Yeager and co. in the fifties and sixties, the scenario to nearly all the action seen in famous movie ''The Right Stuff'': a massive testing and training ground for the USAF and NASA. The Air Force Flight Test Muse

um is inside the base, and tours are available. See the website for details. Note that this is an active military base so ID will be required and visitors may be required to submit to a search. Edwards AFB is best known for being similar to Area 51, but usually most of the time, test and experimental aircraft, like a Boeing B-52, will come out of the hangar to experiment. This Air force base was built in 1933 and opened for use in 1948, for the USAF and NACA. In 1958, NACA has been changed to NASA, making Edwards a NASA base. The site of the first Space Shuttle landing, it became a back-up site to the prime landing location, the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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