White Sands Test Facility - Las Cruces, NM

Concept of the abort flight tests of the Launch Abort System (LAS) at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico NASA's White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) is a comprehensive accumulation of spacecraft propulsion, power, and related test capabilities. White Sands is a center of technical excellence in the fields of high-pressure oxygen systems/materials and rocket propellant safety. WSTF provides a wide variety of test and laboratory research and development (R&D) support to all NASA Centers, the Department of Defense, other government agencies, and private industry. The WSTF capabilities for space-simulated vacuum firings of rocket propulsion systems are among the most extensive in the nation. The sophisticated laboratory investigations of potentially hazardous material and component properties and behavior in aerospace applications have led to its preeminence in that field for the Space Agency.


Map of Las Cruces, NM

Majors:

  • Chemical Engineering
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Materials Science and Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Physics

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