White Sands Missile Range New Mexico

Author : Darren Court
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738558783
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Sands Missile Range written by Darren Court and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the official flag raising on July 9, 1945, the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) has become an integral part of global defense for the United States. A mere week after formation, Project Trinity tested the first atomic bomb at an isolated site, which was 100 miles north on what was then part of the Alamogordo Bombing Range--a test site for B-17 pilots. Back at White Sands Proving Ground, as it was then named, personnel were unaware of the massive new weapon tested to their north. Instead their focus was upon the arrival of what would be 300 railroad cars of captured German V-2 rockets and associated equipment. Later that year, over 100 captured German scientists, among them Werner von Braun, would arrive at White Sands to assist in V-2 technology, launching America's race to space; tens of thousands of rockets and missiles have since been fired on the range. Thousands of family members also lived and worked at the range, and their stories can be found inside as well.

Author : Ryan H. Edgington
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803255632
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Range Wars written by Ryan H. Edgington and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in south-central New Mexico at the end of World War II, White Sands Missile Range is the largest overland military reserve in the western hemisphere. It was the site of the first nuclear explosion, the birthplace of the American space program, and the primary site for testing U.S. missile capabilities. In this environmental history of White Sands Missile Range, Ryan H. Edgington traces the uneasy relationships between the military, the federal government, local ranchers, environmentalists, state game and fish personnel, biologists and ecologists, state and federal political figures, hunters, and tourists after World War II—as they all struggled to define and productively use the militarized western landscape. Environmentalists, ranchers, tourists, and other groups joined together to transform the meaning and uses of this region, challenging the authority of the national security state to dictate the environmental and cultural value of a rural American landscape. As a result, White Sands became a locus of competing geographies informed not only by the far-reaching intellectual, economic, and environmental changes wrought by the cold war but also by regional history, culture, and traditions.

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Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, Joint Services Hazardous Material Minimization Center written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Development and Implementation of Range-wide Mission and Major Capabilities at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Reserved Water
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Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Reserved Water and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gregory P. Kennedy
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764332517
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rockets and Missiles of White Sands Proving Ground, 1945-1958 written by Gregory P. Kennedy and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, the United States Army established a testing center for rockets and guided missiles in south-central New Mexico. Named White Sands Proving Ground, this center was the locale for many of Americas first steps towards space. Rockets and Missiles of White Sands Proving Ground chronicles major activities at the base from 1945-1958. During this period, the Army, Navy, and Air Force all tested missiles at the desert installation. This book details the development and testing for such missiles as Hermes, Corporal, Nike Ajax, Sergeant, Honest John, and Viking. These missiles formed the backbone of much of Americas arsenal during the Cold War and represented major technological advancements. In 1958, the White Sands Proving Ground became the White Sands Missile Range, as it is known today.

Author : White Sands Missile Range (N.M.)
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Sands Missile Range, "Birthplace of America's Missile and Space Activity." written by White Sands Missile Range (N.M.) and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. E. Neher
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soil Survey of White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico written by R. E. Neher and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry J. Moore
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Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missile Impact Craters (White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico) and Applications to Lunar Research written by Henry J. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ellen Klages
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780670062355
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Sands, Red Menace written by Ellen Klages and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living with the Gordons in their quite desert town in New Mexico in 1946, Dewey is learning a lot from her science-obsessed adoptive family, but just as she begins to settle in and get comfortable, Dewey's long-lost mother reemerges to take her away from the only stability she has ever really known in her young life. 20,000 first printing.