SciShow
The Blinding White Remains of a Dying Sea | Weird Places: White Sands
The aptly named White Sands National Park is home to over 400 square kilometers of blindingly white sand. It's the culmination of a remarkable 250 million year process of sorting, transporting, and purifying gypsum to make a truly...
Curated Video
NASA's White Sands Test Facility: Propulsion Testing for Space Missions
The White Sands Test Facility, located in the San Andreas Mountains of New Mexico, is a crucial testing ground for NASA's rocket propulsion systems. Since 1964, engineers and scientists have conducted over 2.1 million firings of more...
Curated Video
Materials Testing and Training at White Sands: Ensuring Reliability and Safety in Space
This video highlights the important role of the White Sands complex in New Mexico in testing and ensuring the reliability of materials used in space shuttles and the International Space Station. It showcases advanced testing techniques,...
Science360
Lizard species diverging to survive
Towering gypsum dunes span hundreds of square miles in New Mexico's White Sands National Monument, the largest gypsum dune field in the world. Hundreds of animal species thrive in this unique ecosystem, but it's the lizards, in...
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: Running a Space Center
Joel Walker and Linda Spuler, NASA’s Johnson Space Center director of center operations and emergency manager, respectively, describe the daily tasks involved in running a space center and how we prepare for and respond to scenarios like...
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: Engage Thrusters
Steve Barsi, European Service Module Propulsion Subsystem Manager, discusses the Orion spacecraft’s propulsion system, how it works and why it's suited for deep space travel. HWHAP Episode 84.
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: Can You Hear Me Now?
Bill Foster, Ground Controller in Mission Control Houston, talks about how space communication networks work and what they will look like for missions into deep space. HWHAP Episode 26.
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: The Boeing Starliner
Tony Castilleja and Celena Dopart, Boeing engineers, talk about the Boeing Starliner spacecraft and all the testing and training happening to get the vehicle and crew ready for the first missions. HWHAP Episode 108.
Next Animation Studio
Fossilized tracks show woman and child’s dangerous journey
An amazing trove of fossilized footprints in New Mexico tells the harrowing story of a woman and a 2-year-old child’s dangerous journey around 13,000 years ago.
NASA
NASA | The Data Downpour
A video describing how the GPM constellation turns observed radiances and reflectivities of global precipitation into data products.
NASA
NASA | TDRS: The Network That Enables Exploration
NASA is preparing to launch the second in a series of three, third generation advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, known as TDRS. This latest addition to the fleet of eight, TDRS-L will augment a space communications network that...
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of the United States: Nevada
This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Southwestern Region of the United States. The individual states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada are presented in detail.
Curated Video
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 43, White Sands Test Facility Small Steps, Giant Leaps
White Sands Test Facility Manager Bob Cort discusses the history and capabilities of the NASA facility.
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: A Ride in Orion
Jeff Fox, Chief Engineer of the Rapid Prototype Lab, talks about some of the testing and training for Orion. Fox brings the actual audio from inside the Orion capsule during its first flight so you, the listener, can experience what it...
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of the United States: New Mexico
This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Southwestern Region of the United States. The individual states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada are presented in detail.
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of the United States: The Southwestern Region
This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Southwestern Region of the United States. The individual states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada are presented in detail.
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of the United States: Arizona
This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Southwestern Region of the United States. The individual states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada are presented in detail.
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of the United States: Texas
This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Southwestern Region of the United States. The individual states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada are presented in detail.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
V-2 rocket moves toward launch pad for experiment in White Sands, NM
VS truck and trailer transport a V-2 rocket across sandy terrain / pan across launch pad and buildings nearby / Note: exact day not known
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
V-2 rocket moves into position on launch pad at White Sands, NM
VS trailer lift raises V-2 rocket to vertical position at its launch pad; pan up and down the length of the V-2, which will be fired with a camera attached to record views of Earth as the V-2 passes over / V-2 on launch pad as trailer...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
V-2 rocket launch in White Sands, NM
VS V-2 rocket moves in sky after launch, emitting vapor trail which becomes more pronounced as it rises higher in sky / Note: exact day not known
Getty Images
Missile testing at White Sands
/ engineers place camera on missile / missile launched into the air / view of missile falling to earth / stills of satellite pictures. Missile testing at White Sands on April 25, 1960 in White Sands, New Mexico (Footage by Getty Images)
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
V-2 rocket assembled in White Sands, NM
V-2 rocket, lying sideways on trailer, with section labeled 'motor section' visible / workers position section of fuselage over rocket, lower it into place / workers wheel the motor section into position and attach it to the fuselage /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Johns Hopkins University sends camera up on a V-2 rocket to get pictures of the Earth
In a field, Dr. Clyde T. Holloway displays the camera used in a V-2 flight as journalists take shots of it / the broken camera in Holloway's hands / CU Holloway / technicians with a large portion of a V-2 / cameramen shoot film of the...