White Sands Missile Range
Missile Garden

This aeroshell flying saucer was used to test landing techniques for the Mars landing program. The rockets were launched from near Roswell and landed in the missile range. The program ran during 1966 and 1967.


Location: White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico
Date: November 1997
Photo by: Sven Knudson


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