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.
White Sands V-2 Launching Site
Location "near Headquarters Area"[2]
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
Built 1945
Architect U.S. Army
NRHP Reference # 85003541
Significant dates
Added to NRHP October 3, 1985[3]
Designated NHL October 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. ↑ Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  4. 1 2 3 "White Sands V-2 Launching Site". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
  5. ↑


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