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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.
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 ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Alamogordo Bombing Range; ... White Sands Test Center; White Sands V-2 Launching Site
"Adjacent to the cantonment area [were] storage facilities for the Athena missile rocket motors" [2] (e.g., Thiokol XM-33 E8 Castor (rocket stage) augmented by 2 Thiokol XM-19 EL Recruit for the 1st stage.) [2] Athena support at the Army's Green River installation's was the responsibility of the Ogden Air Materiel Area (OOAMA) at Hill Air Force ...
White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico: Trinity Site: A bombing range and more lately a missile range centered in the south near Las Cruces, an area in the north part of the range was acquired during World War II and used for the Trinity test.
[1] 1951 – Talos program testing moves to WSPG from Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. [1] August 1952 – First Talos missile launch at WSPG. [1] 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]
Alamogordo AAF, Alamogordo [1] Now: Holloman Air Force Base. Clovis AAF, Clovis; Now: Cannon Air Force Base [2] Kirtland Field, Albuquerque; Now: Kirtland Air Force Base. Air Technical Service Command. Albuquerque Army Airfield, Albuquerque, New Mexico (merged into Kirtland Field in 1944) Army Air Forces Training Command. Carlsbad AAF, Carlsbad
The next major track extension occurred in 1974 when the rails from the Edwards Air Force Base test track were shipped to Holloman and added to the existing tracks to give a new total length of 50,771 ft (15,475 m). During this upgrade, a third rail, approximately 15,000 ft (4,600 m), was added for high-speed, narrow-gauge sleds.