Las Cruces, New Mexico
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Las Cruces is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico and the seat of Doña Ana County. As of the 2020 census the population was 111,385. Las Cruces is the most populous city in both Doña Ana County and southern New Mexico. The Las Cruces metropolitan area had an estimated population of 213,849 in 2017. It is the principal city of a metropolitan statistical area which encompasses all of Doña Ana County and is part of the larger El Paso–Las Cruces combined statistical area with a population of 1,088,420 making it the 56th largest combined statistical area in the United States.
Image: Las Cruces (cropped)
Image: Foster Hall NMSU
Image: Las Cruces NM street scenery (cropped)
Image: Rio Grande Theatre Las Cruces New Mexico
White Sands Missile Range
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White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) is a United States Army military testing area and firing range located in the US state of New Mexico. The range was originally established in 1941 as the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, where the Trinity test site lay at the northern end of the Range, in Socorro County near the towns of Carrizozo and San Antonio. It then became the White Sands Proving Ground on 9 July 1945.
The site of the 1945 Trinity explosion became part of WSMR.
Ground-based electro-optical deep-space surveillance telescopes performing space surveillance mission.
1982 Space Shuttle Columbia landing at Northrop Strip