White Sands Missile Range
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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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