2. Location

3. Overview
Large Buffer Zone and Controlled Remote Property for Hazardous Testing
Moderate Desert Climate Ideal for Year-round Testing
Existing Environmental Permits in Place for Hazardous Testing

4. Overview Constructed in 1962-64 to Support Apollo Project
Subsidiary Unit of NASA Johnson Space Center
Occupies 28 square miles of the SW Corner of WSMR
Annual Budget is ~ $90 Million
~ 60 NASA and ~ 630 Contractor Personnel

5. Organization Chart

6. Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide the expertise and infrastructure to test and evaluate spacecraft materials, components, and propulsion systems to enable the safe exploration and use of space.

7. Customer Base
Johnson Space Center - Shuttle Orbiter, Payloads, International Space Station, Crew Training, Constellation Program, and Special Projects
NASA Headquarters and Other Field Centers
Other US Government Agencies - Army, Navy, Air Force, DOD, DOE, EPA
Commercial Industry

8. Shuttle: Test and Evaluation

9. ISS: Test and Evaluation

10. Constellation: Test and Evaluation
Materials and Components Evaluation
Propulsion Systems Development
Orbital Debris
COPV

11. Constellation Launch Facility Design and Construction
Support Launch Operations
Row Control Engine Test Development
Peacekeeper 4-stage Hardware Harvesting

12. Non-NASA Air Force Navy Army and DOE Industry
Peacekeeper 4th Stage Demilitarization
Minuteman Upper Stage Life Tests
Mobile Oxygen Storage Tanks
Navy
Material Offgassing Tests
Army and DOE
Support Services, Cleaning, Calibration
Industry
Pratt And Whitney - Engine Development Tests
Aerojet - Engine Tests
SpaceX - Material Oxygen Compatibility Test
Wendell Hull Associates - Material/Components Oxygen Compatibility Test
ASTM G4 Community - Material/Components Oxygen Compatibility Test

13. Facilities Rocket Engine System Test Stands with Vacuum
Long-duration Large-altitude Simulation System
Full-scale Hypergolic and Cryogenic Propulsion Test Systems
Chemistry and Metallurgical Laboratories
Flight Component Repair, Refurbishment, and Test Facilities
High Energy Blast Facility
Oxygen-enriched Atmosphere Test Facilities
Hypergolic Materials and Components Test Facilities
Hypervelocity and Low Velocity Impact Test Facilities
White Sands Space Harbor Launch and Landing Site

14. Laboratories Test

15. Laboratories Test Micrometeoroid/Debris Hypervelocity Impact Testing
Propellant and Explosion Hazards Assessment
Research on Flammability of Materials including Metals in Oxygen-enriched Atmospheres

16. Laboratories Test Components Failure Test and Analysis
Molecular Analysis of Surface Effects using X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

17. Hardware Processing Critical Flight Hardware Assembly
Flight Critical System
Components Refurbishment
Flight Hardware Production

18. Hardware Processing Precision Cleaning of Flight Critical Items
Industrial and Scientific Imaging and Documentation
Measurement Standards
and Calibration Lab

19. Propulsion Test Shuttle PRCS Thruster Hot-fire Testing
Cassini – Saturn Orbit Insertion Engine Glows during 3-h 20-min Continuous Firing
Minuteman Qualification Firing inside Vacuum Test Cell

20. Night Firing of Shuttle Forward RCS Primary and Vernier Thrusters
Propulsion Test
Night Firing of Shuttle Forward RCS Primary and Vernier Thrusters

21. Propulsion Test Static Firing of DC-X with 4 LOX/Hydrogen
RL10-A5 Engines
DC-X Executes
Vertical Landing at WSMR

22. White Sands Space Harbor
Orbiter Approach and Landing Training Facility
Restricted, Controlled Airspace
Long, Wide Lakebed Runways
Year-round Flying Weather
No “Bird-strike” Problems

23. White Sands Space Harbor
Landing Training for Astronauts
Landing/NAVAID Development
Procedure Development
Contingency STS Landing Site
Training Aircraft Hangared at El Paso Airport
Scheduled 250 Days for Flight Time
Average 190 Days Flown

24. Alternative Energy WSTF Renewable Energy Program Wind Power
Class 4 – 5 Wind Site
Install 3 – 4 MW to Provide Energy to WSTF (NASA funded)
Install 70 – 100 MW (third party investor)
Challenges:
Construct a Road up the Mountain
WSMR land (lease third party investor)
Funding
Solar Power
Southwest has Great Potential for Solar
Install at least 1 MW for WSTF (NASA funded, NASA land)
Install 100 MW (third party investor)
Challenges:
Resolve BLM Land Issues (third party investor)

25. Educational and Community Outreach
NASA Explorer Schools in New Mexico
Design Competitions
FIRST Robotics Program
New Mexico MESA and MESA USA
Schools & Regional Science and Engineering Fairs
Science Education Alliance and the SCIAD Program
Educational Tours of WSTF
DC-9 Microgravity Fly High Program
X PRIZE and International Symposium for Personal Spaceflight
Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs Committee
Dona Ana County Spaceport Educational Initiative
Hydrogen Technology Partnership (HyTeP)
Oxygen and Hydrogen Safe System Operations Training to NMSU and area hospitals
Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program (SATOP)

26. Economic Impact of WSTF Installation
NASA White Sands Test Facility
Families 600
Payroll $29.2 Million
Total Contract Value $58.0 Million
Budget $86.7 Million
Local Area Purchases and Subcontracts
Other New Mexico $1,641,879
Las Cruces $1,430,069
El Paso $1,276,890
Albuquerque $ 834,820
Alamogordo $ ,788