Space Test Support and Satellite Environmental Testing
Nuclear Weapons Effects Testing.
Hypersonic/Long Range Systems
Hypersonic/Long Range Systems is a collaborative effort between the Army and its Sister Services to deliver precision-strike dominance on land, sea, in the air and beyond
, ranging from hypersonic missiles with a range of more than 1,000 miles, to an upgraded long-barrel howitzer.
White Sands Missile Range is helping this leap-ahead technology as it transitions from the science and technology community and into the hands of operators by providing the capability to test, track, and analyze its awesome range and speed. White Sands Missile Range is the largest fully instrumented, open-air test range in the Department of Defense, providing test support to our sister services, allies, coalition partners, and defense technology innovators. Altogether, we constitute 17 percent of all U.S. Army land. All of the following Army installations combined would fit inside th
Credit Fred Yanker at a formal military dinner with Dr. Wernher Von Braun. (Yanker at 1st left, Von Braun at head of table)
Fred Yanker will celebrate his 100th Birthday Thursday, March 11th. He was born in 1921, that’s some incredible math!
Fred is a 30 year Army veteran, enlisting in the US Army at the beginning of WW2. He served in many roles and rose quickly in the ranks. At the end of the war he was transferred to White Sands Proving Grounds, now called White Sands Missile Range, WSMR. Throughout his career there he held multiple roles involving security, rocket launches and equipment design.
Credit Courtesy of Sheri Quinn
Former USU Physics Professor and co-founder of the Small Satellite Conference at Utah State University, Dr. Raymond Gilbert Moore, passed away December 28, 2020 in Monument, Colorado at the age of 92. His aerospace career spanned the beginning of the U.S. Space Program in the late 1940s through the current space age.
Voicemail from Gil: Hi Sheri, it’s Gil. I’m in the hospital at Colorado Springs and so my time has gotten kinda short. I’ll no longer be able to participate in any space activity. So, I thought I’d call you up and give you this Merry Christmas call. Turns out not to be very happy. Ok, Bye bye.
Former USU Physics Professor and co-founder of the Small Satellite Conference at Utah State University, Dr. Raymond Gilbert Moore, passed away December 28,
Part 1 of this two-part article was on a notorious character in a post-Second World War-era program called Paperclip. It was a Faustian pact of the worst kind: to secretly bring Nazi scientists to work in the United States. Indeed, immediately after the Second World War came to an end in 1945, certain elements of the military and intelligence community clandestinely sought to bring numerous scientists within the German medical and scientific communities into the United States to continue research – and at times highly controversial research – they had undertaken at the height of the war. It was research that included studies of human anatomy and physiology in relation to aerospace medicine, high-altitude exposure, and what was then termed “space biology.” The startling fact that some of these scientists were ardent Nazis, and even members of the notorious and feared