June 18, 2013 NASA selects former Edwards test pilot for 2013 astronaut candidate class NASA officials selected an Airman as one of the eight military and civilian candidates to become an astronaut trainee. After a 1 ½ year search, officials chose Lt. Col. Tyler N. Hague, the Department of Defense deputy chief of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, out of more
June 9, 2009 NASA sonic boom tests set for Thursday The NASA Dryden Flight Research Center will be conducting a series of F/A-18 flights on June 11, that could result in multiple sonic booms being heard in the local area. The booms would occur roughly between 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. June 12 is a backup flight date if the flights cannot be completed on
Nov. 4, 2011 NASA WSRP sonic boom study to commence Friday, Nov 4 The test phase of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's sonic boom study will commence Friday, Nov 4 and continue through November. Weather permitting the research orientation flight (the first test flight) will take place at 11 a.m. tomorrow. Sonic boom monitoring equipment has been placed in
May 10, 2007 NASA, Edwards practice for future shuttle landings NASA and Edwards are geared up and prepared for future shuttle landings as they finished a successful space shuttle exercise here Saturday. With Edwards as the secondary landing site for space shuttle landings, more than 150 Edwards personnel and another 150 people from NASA, Fort Irwin, Calif.,
Aug. 27, 2014 NASA, Edwards say goodbye to historic landmark A structure synonymous with NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center for the past 38 years, the grey-colored space shuttle Mate-Demate Device (MDD) at Edwards Air Force Base is being dismantled and demolished as a part of the final chapter in the U.S. space shuttle program.The decision comes three
Sept. 15, 2014 NASA's shuttle carrier aircraft settles down in Palmdale Retired NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 911, one of two modified Boeing 747 jetliners that ferried NASA's space shuttles for decades, moved to its new home at Joe Davies Heritage Airpark, Sept.12. The 747's final journey was a ground tow from the NASA Armstrong aircraft operations facility less than a
Oct. 27, 2017 National Disability Employment Awareness Month facts In recognition of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, the Edwards NDEAM Committee has provided a few facts from the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute. - In 2004, the United States Supreme Court heard Tennessee v. Lane, a case in which individuals sued the state of Tennessee
Sept. 14, 2018 National Preparedness Month at Edwards Your 812th Civil Engineer Squadron Emergency Management Flight is at the Base Exchange from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. from Tuesday-Thursday throughout National Prepardeness Month. Please stop by to win trinkets from the Spin-the-Wheel game, enter a raffle to win an emergency preparedness kit, or get free
Sept. 11, 2017 National Preparedness Month tip September is National Preparedness Month and the Air Force wants everyone to be prepared and have a plan. Visit the Air Force Be Ready website for tips on how to plan for emergencies.
Sept. 24, 2018 National Preparedness Month tip The state of California has been ravaged by the worst fire season on record with over 1 million acres burned this year. Several fires are in the top 10 largest fires in state history. The Carr Fire is the sixth most destructive fire in California and destroyed 1604 structures, including 1077