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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.
On the range grounds, it is located on 10 acres (4.0 ha) east of the White Sands Range Museum. There are two principal surviving elements of the launch complex. One is the steel gantry , a steel structure 75 feet (23 m) in height and 25 feet (7.6 m) wide, from which the V-2s and later classes of rockets were launched.
White Sands: Pad 33: 26.7: GE technology proving flight. 28: 8 December 1947: White Sands: ... Successfully manoeuvred by ground control for first 40s of flight. 39:
Seventy-five years ago, White Sands Proving Ground flirted with disaster when two German V-2 rockets crashed very near local communities. Two crashes in two weeks: In 1947, rockets launched from ...
May 1953 – Base name formally changed from White Sands Proving Ground to White Sands Missile Range (WSMR). [8] June 1953 – Construction completed for USS Desert Ship blockhouse. [1] May 1954 – Viking 11 set a single-stage altitude record of 158 miles. [1] April 1957 – Aerobee-Hi set a single stage altitude record of 190 miles. [1]
There, they worked on U.S. Army rockets and assisted in V-2 launches at the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. In 1950, von Braun's team moved to Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Alabama ...
Universal newsreel about a V-2 launch at White Sands Proving Ground on May 10, 1946. German V-2 rockets captured by the United States Army at the end of World War II were used as sounding rockets to carry scientific instruments into the Earth's upper atmosphere, and into sub-orbital space, at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) for a program of atmospheric and solar investigation through the late ...
Six Bumper launches were made from White Sands Proving Grounds. The first four, launched in 1947/48 were test flights of varying degrees of success. [1] The first fully successful Bumper flight was the fifth in the series, launched at 3:14 P.M. , February 24, 1949. [4]: 257