FILE -A Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft carrying the Space Shuttle Discovery that landed on Oct. 24, takes off from Edwards Air Force Base, bound for the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Nov. 2, ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE — For decades, a U.S. Air Force base in Southern California’s Mojave Desert has been a hotbed of some of the most innovative flight research in the U.S. From a test pilot ...

Eight people killed when a B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after takeoff on a test mission from Edwards Air Force base in California have been identified. Those onboard when the plane went down at ...

NASA's fleet of Space Shuttles could survive challenging solar conditions, but needed a boost to get around on Earth. Here's how a pair of 747s helped.

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — For decades, a U.S. Air Force base in Southern California’s Mojave Desert has been a hotbed of some of the most innovative flight research in the U.S. From a test ...