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White Sands Missile Range

American  

noun

  1. a U.S. Army military testing ground for rockets and guided missiles in SW New Mexico, W of Alamogordo.


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The Armstrong team ultimately selected White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico for the pad-abort test.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 31, 2026

The facility would be called the Red Sands Integrated Experimentation Center, evoking the White Sands Missile Range, the U.S. military testing facility for extended-range missiles in New Mexico.

From Washington Post Oct. 16, 2022

Its crew capsules splash down off the Florida coast, Boeing’s Starliner returns to the Army’s expansive and desolate White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

From Seattle Times May 25, 2022

Rosie and "her" capsule will stay attached to the station for four to five days, before departing for a parachute-assisted descent and landing at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

From BBC May 19, 2022

SIMTEL20 The White Sands Missile Range used to maintain a giant collection of free and low-cost software of all kinds, which was "mirrored" to numerous other ftp sites on the Net.

From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation

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