Built 1945 (1945) NRHP Reference # 85003541 Designated NHL October 3, 1985 Area 4 ha | Built by U.S. Army NMSRCP # 580 Opened 1945 Added to NRHP 3 October 1985 | |
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Location White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico Similar Spacecraft Magnetic Test Facil, Propulsion and Structural, Space Environment Simulatio, Saturn V Dynamic Test Stand, Twenty‑Five Foot Space Simulator | ||
White Sands V-2 Launching Site (Launch Complex 33, originally "Army Launch Area Number 1") is the White Sands Missile Range site "closely associated with U.S. testing of the German V-2 rocket... The V-2 Gantry Crane and Army Blockhouse here represent the first [sic] generation of rocket testing facilities that would lead to U.S. exploration of space" (cf. the 1937 Test Stand VII at Germany's Peenemünde Army Research Center, 1931 Kummersdorf test range facilities).
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