Edwards AFB News

  • Shredder safety

    A paper shredder offers an easy way to destroy a document, and helps reduce concerns about privacy. Unfortunately, Consumer Product Safety Commission data indicates a total of about 2,000 people were treated in hospitals for business and office machine injuries during 2003, and about30% of those

  • Shuttle exercise clears Edwards for landing

    In preparation for the possibility of the arrival of an orbiter, Team Edwards and NASA Dryden Research Center performed a shuttle landing exercise July 26. Human Space Flight requires the base to conduct two exercises a year to ensure its capabilities to support landings still meet NASA's standards.

  • Shuttle Service Offered on Retiree Appreciation Day

    Shuttle service will be offered for those driving recreational vehicles to attend Retiree Appreciation Day Oct. 2.In addition to the Fam Camp, there will be parking for the RVs at the Base Exchange and bowling alley parking lots. A base shuttle bus will pick up event attendees from those lots and

  • Sign up now for Desert High School Robotics camps

    Do you have a student interested in learning about robotics? The Desert High Robotics Team is sponsoring two camps this summer for rising 7-12th graders. The camps will be held at the Center of Excellence next to DHS.Summer Camps:July 18 - Hardware Camp, 9:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. Learn hands on

  • Sign up now for Global Leadership Summit 2016

    The Global Leadership Summit is a two-day event telecast live in HD from Willow Creek Community Church near Chicago every August to hundreds of locations in North America. The 412th Test Wing Chaplain’s Office is inviting folks around Edwards to join an expected 305,000 people committed to getting

  • Simulated B-1B crash starts Edwards ORE

    The circumstances are very possible -- an Edwards B-1B Lancer crashes while attempting an emergency landing.While this is a viable scenario for the Air Force Flight Test Center Inspector General to test the base's response, Sunday's early-morning Operational Readiness Exercise kick-off had a little

  • Single Airmen get home-baked holiday goodies

    Like a well-oiled machine, the Edwards Officers' Spouses Club packed around 3,600 cookies into decorated brown paper bags Dec. 3. The annual Airman's Holiday Cookie Drive, sponsored by the First Sergeants Council, was a community effort to ensure that nearly 300 Airmen living in the dorms got a

  • Single Airmen get taste of home

    The Airmen and Family Readiness Center teamed with the Edwards First Sergeants Council to bring unaccompanied Airmen living in the dorms, a "taste of home" for the holidays with their annual Cookie Drop. After two months of planning, volunteers from the Officers Spouses and Enlisted Spouses Clubs