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White Sands V-2 Launching Site

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For the V-2 rocket launches that began in 1946 at this site, e.g., filmed from the rocket in November 1947,[1] performed by the Broomstick Scientists in 1951, etc., see V-2 test launches in the USA.
White Sands V-2 Launching Site
White Sands V-2 Launching Site is located in New Mexico
White Sands V-2 Launching Site
Location"near Headquarters Area"[2]
White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico
Built1945
ArchitectU.S. Army
NRHP reference No.85003541
Significant dates
Added to NRHPOctober 3, 1985[3]
Designated NHLOctober 3, 1985[4]

White Sands V-2 Launching Site (Launch Complex 33, originally "Army Launch Area Number 1")[5] is the White Sands Missile Range site "closely associated with U.S. testing of the German V-2 rocket... The V-2 Gantry Crane and Army Blockhouse here represent the first [sic] generation of rocket testing facilities that would lead to U.S. exploration of space"[4] (cf. the 1937 Test Stand VII at Germany's Peenemünde Army Research Center, 1931 Kummersdorf test range facilities).[4]

References

  1. ^ https://www.google.com/#q=White+Sands+rocket+launch+film
  2. ^ Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. NM-1-B, "White Sands Missile Range, V-2 Rocket Facilities, Near Headquarters Area, White Sands vicinity, Dona Ana County, NM", 72 photos, 6 measured drawings, 118 data pages, 5 photo caption pages
  3. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  4. ^ a b c "White Sands V-2 Launching Site". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
  5. ^ [1]


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