FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico ~ 21 JAN 2014

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

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Road Trip: White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico

White Sands Missile Range is a rocket range of almost 3,200 square miles area, the largest military installation in the United States. WSMR includes the Oscura Range and the WSMR Otera Mesa bombing range. WSMR and the 600,000-acre Fort Bliss Range Complex to the south form a contiguous swath of territory for military testing.

White Sands Missile Range is a Test and Evaluation Command Installation operated primarily for the support of research, development, test, and evaluation of weapon and space systems, subsystems, and components.

WSMR, established in 1945, is the largest all-overland test range in the Western Hemisphere, and is the Department of the Army's largest installation, covering approximately 2.2 million acres. With the addition of several extension areas, the range can be expanded to nearly four million acres for certain types of testing. WSMR is bordered by Fort Bliss to the south and by Holloman Air Force Base to the west.

White Sands is poised to meet the many challenges that 21st century technological advancements, acquisition reform, and force transformation will present to the Acquisition Test and Evaluation community, private industry, and research laboratories (both domestic and international).

White Sands is leading the way for distributed testing of Joint capabilities. They are focusing on integrating complex Joint capabilities into a cohesive environment that will merge live and simulated operations across many geographically-separated test ranges. White Sands continues to offer a world class Range Control facility, state of the art launch complexes, and extensive environmental test facilities and laboratories.

Learn More About White Sands Missile Range And The Army Garrison HERE!!

White Sands Missile Range Historical Foundation was organized to support the White Sands Missile Range Museum and to raise money for a permanent museum to collect and exhibit the artifacts necessary to memorialize the events, and the participants, both individual and organizational who have contributed to the outstanding achievements at White Sands Missile Range.

At the White Sands Missile Range Museum you can trace the origin of America's missile and space activity, find out how the atomic age began and learn about the accomplishments of scientists like Dr. Wernher von Braun and Dr. Clyde Tombaugh at White Sands. Displays also include the prehistoric cultures and the rip-roaring Old West found in southern New Mexico. Pictured Above is Missile Park.

Visit The White Sands Missile Range Museum HERE!!

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, oldplayer, and thank you for sharing this information.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hope a lot of OZ gets the rain they need.

[left that other site]

2 out of 3! Not Bad.

I am hoping the recitals will be in the same venues as last year.

[MoochPooch]

Evening Kathy. I think NY is turning into Alaska.

[MoochPooch]

Evening Kathy. I think NY is turning into Alaska.

[Publius]

SEATTLE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY

WINTER FESTIVAL

JANUARY 24 THRU FEBRUARY 2

Franz Joseph Haydn wrote 104 trios for piano, violin and cello, making him the inventor of this genre. The cello in a Haydn trio backs the piano in a harmonic imitation of the harpsichord continuo role from the Baroque era, so cellists don’t get all that excited about playing a Haydn trio. These trios are sensible music for sensible people, and each of them is a little gem. Saturday night’s opener is Haydn’s Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano in C, Hob. XV:27.

This video is a performance of the Trio Gaspard from the Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition in Weimar, Germany. Look at the sheer joy and exuberance these people experience in playing this piece. These folks won first prize. The pianist is Chinese, the violinist is Polish, and the cellist is an American whose parents must have been hippies. Check out her full name. Catch the improvisation on the piano at 13:17; Haydn just provides a fermata in the score and tells the pianist to ad lib.

Haydn: Piano Trio in C, Hob. XV:27

[luvie]

thanks for sharing this! :)

You have been a busy guy with all these concerts!

[Publius]

This is just the education part. The actual concerts are Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I’ll be posting links to the live concerts on those days.

[HiJinx]

IIRC, it’s 55 or 65. But if there’s a test underway, the speed limit is zero! Traveling on US 70 can be a real gamble.

[PROCON]

Hi Ma, thanks for tonight’s Canteen, HUGS!

[HiJinx]

Rocket exhaust, lit by a sunset.
The view is from here in Arizona. Sagauros don’t grow anywhere else.

[yarddog]

Holloman seems to be one of those active bases. I noticed on the local news that a squadron of F-22s from Holloman was recently moved to Tyndall. That makes Tyndall the base with the most F-22s in the world.

I have noticed that when there is combat such as Iraq, the Eglin and Holloman squadrons seem to be the ones sent to do the heavy lifting.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Pro...((HUGS))...did you have the day off?

How did you like the games yesterday? Your guys win?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mooch...you’ve got all our cold. Stay warm!!

“They” say the next week will be 36 and a little more for highs, with some of the nights above and some below freezing. My parking lot at work is like an ice skating rink. They’ve done a very poor job of getting gravel down. I wear my spikies from car to inside and back again.

Hope you don’t have to spend much time out in the cold.

[luvie]

That’s a lot of work and research...and I know you’re up to the task! :)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Do you have to do the procuring of venue?

[Publius]

Aw shucks.

(MUMBLE MUMBLE BLUSH BLUSH)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Luv. I would like to visit a couple of the military museums one day.

I think Lauren’s heavy duty work is for at least a month.

[luvie]

I’d love to visit the Air Museum in Ohio. But it’s a looooong way from here. :)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Can’t beat G-Pa’s lap for a good nap. d:o)