Article Excerpt: It’s an unusual winter morning in the desert surrounding Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California — unusual in that the wind isn’t howling across the dry lake beds, Joshua trees and low-lying scrub.

It’s easy to hear but not see jets from the base as they pierce the cloudless sky, and you’d almost swear you could hear echoes of flights more than 50 years ago in the area by such heroes as Neil Armstrong, Alan Shepard, Gordon Cooper and superstar test pilot Chuck Yeager during the lead-up to America’s manned space program.

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