On July 9, 2025, White Sands Missile Range will celebrate its 80th anniversary, marking 80 years as the nation's premier ...

The 80th anniversary of the Trinity Site test of the world’s first atomic bomb was marked this past week. The test at Trinity ...

The thunder of a solid rocket booster hurtling a scientific payload to the edge of space shook the sides of buildings on White Sands Missile Range Friday. The sounding rocket carried the first space t ...

White Sands Missile Range welcomed a new commander during a Change of Command ceremony as outgoing commander Brig. Gen.

White Sands Missile Range was established in 1945, and was the site of the world’s first atomic bomb test. The range has seen at least 42,000 missile and rocket launches over the past 75 years.

Archbishop John C. Wester, clad in black and flanked by two other New Mexico Catholic bishops, stood poised to venture into the White Sands Missile Range with plans to pray for peace and the ...

The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site. However, most of us are not familiar with the Trinity Site explosion weeks earlier on May 7, 1945.

The Pershing II missile is one of the largest missiles on display at the White Sands Missile Park in New Mexico. The Pershing II was a mobile, intermediate-range ballistic missile deployed by the ...

The White Sands Missile Range Museum shares the history of America's missile and space activity that took place just outside of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Darren Court, museum director, gave a tour ...

LAS CRUCES - White Sands Missile Range has formally activated a new training center for special forces. Two months ago, WSMR held an activation ceremony for the base's Special Operations Forces ...

Glaisek returned to White Sands, just before Thanksgiving, to see the painting he made 60 years ago after being invited by the missile range’s Cultural Resources staff to discuss repair of water ...