The rocket junkyard, Alamogordo. Being that it was a no trespassing zone, that I was not from there, and it was in a decayed part of town (nothing terrible, just abandoned sites all around me) I didn’t go around the perimeter as much as I would have liked.
I’m guessing these are surplus parts from the White Sands range. I also think that this is a storage facility for NM Space History Museum.
Anyway, there were all sort of interesting tidbits in there. A rail from a rocket sled, a Matador tactical nuclear cruise missile, a few V-1 derivatives, etc. It was interesting to look at this stuff just sitting around in the elements.
MT-61 Matador
Classification: Surface-to-Surface Cruise Missile
Length: 39 feet, 7 inches
Diameter: 4 feet, 6 inches
Wingspan: 28 feet, 8 inches
Range: 500 miles
Date of First Cape Canaveral Launch: June 20, 1951
Date of Final Cape Canaveral Launch: June 1, 1961
Number of Cape Canaveral Launches: 286