White Sands V-2 Launching Site

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.

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White Sands V-2 Launching Site (Launch Complex 33)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
N.M. State Register of Cultural Properties
V-2 rocket facilities

Location	White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico
Coordinates	32°24′4″N 106°22′40″W / 32.40111°N 106.37778°W / 32.40111; -106.37778Coordinates: 32°24′4″N 106°22′40″W / 32.40111°N 106.37778°W / 32.40111; -106.37778
Area	10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built	1945 (1945)
Built by	U.S. Army
NRHP Reference #	85003541^[2]
NMSRCP #	580
Added to NRHP	October 3, 1985
Designated NHL	October 3, 1985
Designated NMSRCP	January 20, 1978

White Sands V-2 Launching Site (Launch Complex 33, originally "Army Launch Area Number 1")^[3] 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

↑ https://www.google.com/#q=White+Sands+rocket+launch+film
↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
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1 2 "White Sands V-2 Launching Site". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on July 10, 2014. Retrieved 2008-06-16.

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