White Sands V-2 Launching Site

For the V-2 rocket launches that began in 1946 at this site, e.g., filmed from the rocket in November 1947, performed by the Broomstick Scientists in 1951, etc., see V-2 test launches in the USA.

White Sands V-2 Launching Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
File:White Sands Missile Range, V-2 Rocket Facilities, Near Headquarters Area, White Sands vicinity (Dona Ana County, New Mexico).jpg
Location	"near Headquarters Area" White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico
Coordinates
Built	1945
Architect	U.S. Army
NRHP Reference #	85003541
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	October 3, 1985
Designated NHL	October 3, 1985

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).