Edwards Air Force Base News

Henry W. Hartsfield Jr. logged 483 hours during three trips into space. When his career as an astronaut ended, he transitioned to working for NASA on the ground.

I'd be willing to bet that 99 percent of all Porsche Macan owners will never take their vehicle on a track or see any more off-roading than a dirt path to a summer cottage, yet I maintain that there is no better venue to explore the absolute outer limits of the automaker's newest small family transport than on a racing circuit and an off-road ... (more)

In an important program milestone enabling U.S. Marines Corps Initial Operational Capability certification, the Lockheed Martin F-35B recently completed required wet runway and crosswind testing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

Hartsfield, who commanded Challenger's last successful flight in 1985, criticized NASA for failing to disclose the shuttle's potential safety problems before the 1986 blast that killed seven astronauts.

One of the most decorated ships in U.S. history will welcome back this weekend a space trailblazer who came aboard after taking part in one of the world's most memorable events.

Our third installment in our series is about Rocketdyne, the company which built and designed the mighty rocket engines for the Saturn V. Our third installment in our series is about Rocketdyne , the company which built and designed the mighty rocket engines for the Saturn V. The Rocketdyne F-1 rocket engine, producing 1.5 million pounds of takeoff ... (more)

SCOTT CROSSFIELD WAS THE FIRST to fly the X-15, and he probably knew the airplane better than anyone else.

For several goose bump-filled minutes today at U.S. Air Force Plant 42, it was July 17, 1989, all over again.

NASA astronaut Henry "Hank" Hartsfield, who in 1984 commanded the maiden mission of the space shuttle Discovery, died on Thursday .

Hydrazine is an effective fuel, but exposure to hydrazine is extremely toxic to people, and in some forms hydrazine is dangerously unstable.

The first B-2 stealth bomber soars over the Mojave Desert during its maiden flight, on July 17, in 1989.

Climate impacts that could affect the DOD's nearly 7,600 sites worldwide include hotter temperatures, rising sea levels and increasing storm frequency and intensity A lakebed used as an emergency runway at Edwards Air Force Base inundated by floods didn't dry out completely for 8 months.

Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke and Rosemary Roosa, Director of the Walter Anderson Museum and daughter of Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa, stand with a "Moon Tree" which will be planted at the museum.

The U.S. military has grounded all its new F-35 Joint Strike Fighters following an incident on June 23, when one of the high-tech warplanes caught fire on the runway of a Florida air base.

ON AUGUST 23, 1954, LOCKHEED TEST PILOTS Stan Beltz and Roy Wimmer powered up the latest of their company's improbable designs, and after an 855-foot ground roll, pulled it up into the southern California sky on its first flight, bound for Edwards Air Force Base.

Paul Hattendorf, Lockheed Martin test pilot, was flying an Airframe Loads Envelope Expansion mission June 11 when the fighter reached the milestone.

Depending on who's talking, the North American F-107A was either the best fighter the Air Force didn't have the sense to buy, or a politically flawed loser from the outset.

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II lifts off during testing at Edwards Air Force Base on March 19, 2013.

With a profile that would never be considered glamorous, the Douglas Skyknight was a conventional design delivering truly mediocre performance.

When it appeared at the flight test facility at California's Muroc Air Force Base in 1948, the Northrop X-4 Bantam was the 98-pound weakling of research airplanes.