White Sands Missile Range
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White Sands Test Center
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Data Sciences Directorate
Logistics Directorate
Materiel Test Directorate
- Future Force Division
- Manned Tactical Systems Branch
Survivability, Vulnerability and Assessment Directorate
- Electromagnetic Effects Division
- Electromagnetic Radiation Branch
Office of the Project Manager for Instrumentation Targets and Threat Simulators
Test Center Safety Office
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White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) is a rocket range of almost 3,200 square miles (8,300 km2) in parts of five counties in southern New Mexico. The largest military installation in the United States, WSMR includes the Oscura Range and the WSMR Otera Mesa bombing range.[4] WSMR and the 600,000-acre (2,400 km2) McGregor Range Complex at Fort Bliss to the south, form a contiguous swath of territory for military testing.[4]
Current operations
Chronology
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References
- ^ "Chapter Four: Global War at White Sands 1940-1945". White Sands Administrative History. National Park Service. http://www.nps.gov/archive/whsa/adhi/adhi4d.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-07. "Executive Order No. 9029"
- ^ a b "Development of the Corporal: the embryo of the army missile program, vol. 2" (PDF). Army Ballistic Missile Agency. http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/pdf/corporal/corp2.pdf.
- ^ NOTE: The Center for Countermeasures (CCM), founded 1972, is a joint program of the OSD's Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E), which is itself a component of the OSD (OSD). The CCM evaluates precision guided munitions and other devices in counter- and counter-countermeasures environments.
- ^ a b Rubenson, David; Robert Everson, Jorge Munoz (Arroyo Center); Robert Weissler (RAND Corporation) (1998). McGregor Renewal and the Current Air Defense Mission. p. 77. ISBN 9780833026699. http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA76&lpg=PA77&dq=%22oscura+range%22&sig=ACfU3U23XQxVEVy1KwqBGxtItIwAm1vfoA&id=nJlnO6Prw5AC&ots=Ibl4fenRK5#PPA79,M1. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
- ^ "Time Magazine, "Recovery at White Sands"". June 29, 1962. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,897960,00.html.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "A Brief History of White Sands Proving Ground 1941-1965". New Mexico State University. http://nmsua.edu/tiopete/files/2008/12/wspgcoldbook.pdf. Retrieved 2010-08-19.
- ^ a b Ordway, Frederick I, III; Sharpe, Mitchell R (1979). The Rocket Team. Apogee Books Space Series 36. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. pp. 290. ISBN 1894959000.
- ^ a b c Ley, Willy (1951 - revised edition 1958) [1944]. Rockets, Missiles and Space Travel. New York: The Viking Press. pp. 246, 253.
- ^ Bluth, John. "Von Karman, Malina laid the groundwork for the future JPL". JPL. http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/files/universe/un940715.txt.
- ^ "WSTF Community". NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/wstf/about/wstfcomm.html.
- ^ Richard Greenwood (January 14, 1975) (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Trinity Site. National Park Service. http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/66000493.pdf. Retrieved 2009-06-21 and Accompanying 10 photos, from 1974.PDF (3.37 MB)
- ^ "Trinity Site". National Historic Landmarks. National Park Service. http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceID=351&resourceType=District. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ "White Sands V-2 Launching Site". Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms. http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/aviation/whi.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-07.
- ^ Works by White Sands Missile Range Public Affairs Office at Project Gutenberg
- ^ "article". Aerospace America: p. B6. October 2004.
- ^ "NASA Building Test Pad at White Sands for New Spacecraft". redOrbit. 3 February 2008. http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1240532/nasa_building_test_pad_at_white_sands_for_new_spacecraft/index.html. Retrieved 2008-09-12.
- ^ NASA: Constellation Mission Project, Research, and Test Sites Overview
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