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At White Sands Missile Range, local middle school students participated in the Gains in the Education of Mathematics and ...
White Sands Missile Range was established in 1945, and was the site of the world’s first atomic bomb test. The range has seen at least 42,000 missile and rocket launches over the past 75 years.
A rocket launched from southern New Mexico on June 13 was used to help develop the technology for launching atomic weapons as ...
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. (March 22, 2025) - A remarkable 4,603 participants participated in the 36th Annual Bataan Memorial Death March, held on March 22 at White Sands Missile Range.
A 3D-printed titanium payload, launched June 13, was "designed, built and tested in just three years," the lab said.
The rocket reached the edge of space, performed a suborbital flight, then released the payload and returned to the ground.
Today, up to 6,000 oryx roam White Sands Missile Range - their only wild North American habitat. At the range, oryx delay missile tests, get hit by the occasional car and impale the occasional ...
A Textron Scorpion experimental aircraft flies above White Sands Missile Range near Alamagordo in 2017. The missile range was fined hundreds of thousands of dollars after finding a fire ...
Hunters can also apply for once-in-a-lifetime hunts on the White Sands Missile Range, though those tags are especially limited: Deubel has applied 27 years in a row, and his name has never been drawn.
White Sands Missile Range is set to have a road closure on U.S. Highway 70 just east of Las Cruces on Thursday morning, May 22. The highway will be blocked off starting at 6:10 a.m., that is ...