Edwards Airforce base NASA

The drive was 3 hours from our hotel to Edwards Air force base, it was located deep in the desert area in Dryden and according to our personal tour guide from NASA itself, the whole of the main city of Los Angeles could sit in the boundary of the whole base.
There, our tour guide explained what NASA was doing for the base, and it was a secondary landing zone for the space shuttle. It is also doing some R&D on the global hawk and predator for the earth environmental and weather watch purposes instead of military. It also housed some replicas and prototypes of certain 1st generation jet planes. After the tour round the hangers, we went to the plane museum and took loads of the pictures of the planes especially the B-52 and the SR-71 blackbird. Oh and i saw the F/A-22 raptor in the air WOO HOO!!. I enjoyed it.