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#OTD 17 September 1946Engineers from Bell Laboratory static test-fire the first Nike surface-to-air missile at Army Launch Area 1 (modern day Launch Complex 33). See MoreSee Less
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#OTD 7 September 1944An 18- by 24-mile area on the Alamogordo Bombing Range is selected by Manhattan Project personnel as the Trinity Site, the location where the US Army would conduct the first test of a nuclear bomb. See MoreSee Less
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#OTD 31 August 1959Honest John, the Missile Range’s "Old Reliable," logs its 1,000th firing at White Sands Missile Range. See MoreSee Less
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