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White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) is a United States Army military testing area and firing range located in the US state of New Mexico.The range was originally established in 1941 as the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, where the Trinity test site lay at the northern end of the Range, in Socorro County near the towns of Carrizozo and San Antonio.
With the September 1947 formation of the USAF, in late 1947 the Holloman range and the White Sands Proving Ground merged to become the New Mexico Joint Guided Missile Test Range (later renamed White Sands Missile Range), [5]: 248 and the renamed Holloman Air Force Base (13 January 1948) supported WSMR launch complexes (Launch Complex 33, etc ...
Stallion Army Airfield (FAA LID: 95E) is a military airport in Socorro County, New Mexico. The airfield serves the White Sands Missile Range , in the northwest corner of which it is located. [ 3 ]
The Holloman High Speed Test Track (HHSTT) is a United States Department of Defense/Air Force aerospace ground test facility located at Holloman Air Force Base in south-central New Mexico. It is adjacent to the White Sands Missile Range and is operated by the 846th Test Squadron of the 704th Test Group of the Arnold Engineering Development ...
The White Sands V-2 Launching Site, also known as Launch Complex 33 and originally as Army Launch Area Number 1, is an historic rocket launch complex at White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. It was here that the United States first performed test launches of German V-2 rockets captured toward the end of World War II. These tests ...
White Sands is a census-designated place (CDP) in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. [2] It consists of the main residential area on the White Sands Missile Range . As of the 2010 census the population of the CDP was 1,651. [ 4 ]
White Sands Test Facility; Agency overview; Formed: 1963: Jurisdiction: Federal government of the United States: Headquarters: Las Cruces, New Mexico: Parent agency: Johnson Space Center NASA: Website: nasa.gov /white-sands-test-facility /
White Sands Missile Range, formerly the White Sands Proving Ground, a military installation in New Mexico hosting: White Sands Test Center, operated by the United States Army; White Sands Test Facility, operated by NASA, and including: White Sands Space Harbor; White Sands National Park, desert of white sand dunes in New Mexico, US; Whitesands ...