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- White Sands Missile Range Archaeologist Wins Top Army Award for Preserving History in Complex Installation Environment
- White Sands Missile Range Hosts Museum Grand Reopening After Renovations
- White Sands Missile Range Museum to Reopen 4 May
- WSMR Historical Foundation Publishes Quarterly Newsletter – February 2023
- WSMR Historical Foundation Publishes Quarterly Newsletter – November 2022
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#OTD 17 September 1946![]()
Engineers from Bell Laboratory static test-fire the first Nike surface-to-air missile at Army Launch Area 1 (modern day Launch Complex 33).
#OTD 7 September 1944![]()
An 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.
#OTD 31 August 1959![]()
Honest John, the Missile Range’s "Old Reliable," logs its 1,000th firing at White Sands Missile Range.