21st Century Complete Guide to White Sands: U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) and the NASA White Sands Test Facility Birthplace of Americas Missile and Space Activity with a Complete Illustrated History of Rocket Testing (CD-ROM)

This comprehensive CD-ROM provides the complete story of the White Sands, New Mexico facilities used by the Army and NASA: the Army White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) and the NASA White Sands Test Facility; the Systems Test and Assessment Directorate of the Army, and the White Sands Test Center (WSTC). In addition to material about current activities, there is extensive illustrated historical material about the testing of rockets starting with the V-2.

The White Sands Missile Range, which calls itself the birthplace of America's missile and space activity, provides quality test, evaluation, research, and other technical services to the Army and DOD acquisition programs. It a multi-service test range whose main function is the support of missile development and test programs for the Army, Navy, Air Force, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), other government agencies and private industry. The White Sands range is under operational control of the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (TECOM), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. TECOM is the Army's test laboratory for planning and conducting engineering and service tests of all materials from missiles to rifles, tanks to trucks, clothing to radios, aviation to fire control equipment. The missile range is in the Tularosa Basin of south-central New Mexico. During World War II, with the eye-opening German rocket work, the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps recognized the possibilities of rocket warfare and sponsored research and development in methods of missile guidance. The missile range was established July 9, 1945, as White Sands Proving Ground (name changed in 1958) to be America's testing range for the development of rocket technology and missile weapons. As soon as White Sands was established work began on a launch complex for testing missiles, which included the V-2, Corporal, Lance, MLRS, and others. Trinity Site was the location for the explosion of the world's first atomic bomb. White Sands also provides an alternate landing site for the Space Shuttle at Northrup Strip.

The NASA Test Facility tests hypergolic propellant handling, the chemical and physical properties of materials, hazards in the High Energy Blast Facility, oxygen systems, and propulsion components. The White Sands Space Harbor (WSSH) is a primary shuttle pilot training area and backup landing site.

In all, this CD-ROM has over 6,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, and portable.

Our CD-ROMs are privately-compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc makes a great reference work and educational tool.