Edwards Air Force Base

Edwards Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation in California, established in the 1930s as Muroc Field and later renamed in 1950 for test pilot Capt. Glen Edwards. The base is home to the Air Force Test Center, Air Force Test Pilot School, and NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, and is the site of many historic flights, including Chuck Yeager's sound barrier-breaking flight in the Bell X-1. The base was developed in the 1940s to expand its runway and accommodate the growth of the US Air Corps, and has since hosted a variety of research and development activities, including the test flights of the North American X-15 and the first landings of the Space Shuttle.learn more on wikipedia