White Sands Test Facility Encourages Locals to Leave Their Footprint on the Space Industry
4 Dec 2024, 14:00 GMT
By Linda E. Grimm
Topic: Johnson Space Center
Source URL: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/white-sands-test-facility-encourages-locals-to-leave-their-footprint-on-the-space-industry/
At the edge of Las Cruces, New Mexico, surrounded by miles of sunbaked earth, NASA’s White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) is quietly shaping the future. There is no flash, no fanfare — the self-contained facility operates as it has since 1962, humbly and in relative obscurity. Yet as New Mexico’s space industry skyrockets amid intensifying