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Edwards Air Force Base
Muroc Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base; Muroc Air Force Base
Part of Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC)
Located near: Edwards, California
	Flightline at Edwards Air Force Base, California Edwards AFR
Type	Air Force Base
Site information
Owner	United States Air Force
Controlled by	Air Force Materiel Command
Condition	Active
Site history
Built	1933
In use	1933–present
Garrison information
Garrison	95th Air Base Wing; 412th Test Wing

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Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force base located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster, California.

It is the home of the Air Force Flight Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and developmental flight test and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. It operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and is home to NASA's Dryden Research Center and considerable test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace leaders.

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 ==See also==
+* [[Air Force Materiel Command]]
+* [[Chuck Yeager]]
+* [[John Stapp]]—medical doctor and research physicist; contemporary and friend to Yeager and Murphy, known variously as ''Fastest human on earth'', ''The bravest man in the Air Force'',  and ''The careful Daredevil'', headed the historic MX981 rocket-sled research project.
+* [[Aerospace Walk of Honor]], in nearby [[Lancaster, California]], honors notable Edwards test pilots.
+* [[Murphy's Law]]—point of origination sometime in 1949. Popularized by John Stapp, one time neighbor of engineer [[Major Edward A. Murphy, Jr.|Edward A. Murphy]], his team coined the term which came out a few months afterwards in the first of Stapp's many press conferences over several decades. ''Murphy'' contributed measurement instruments that went awry to Doctor Stapp's MX981 project which sparked the laws naming to Murphy by Stapp's staff on his single visit to the program.
+* [[Pancho Barnes]]—pioneer of women's aviation and the owner of the celebrated Happy Bottom Riding Club located on land annexed into Edwards
+* [[North Edwards]]—home of retired chief master [[sergeants]] and [[NASA]] engineers as well as early clay mines vital to Muroc's fortunes.
+* [[California World War II Army Airfields]]
+* [[List of airports in Kern County, California]]
 ==References==