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    Gene Kranz visits White Sands Test Facility

    He still comes across as tough and competent, a hard won effort in the difficult arena of manned spaceflight. And when he talks, people still listen. Gene Kranz, NASA’s Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab Flight Director, visited White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) recently as part of the Apollo 16 40th Anniversary Commemoration Event.

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    White Sands Test Facility Emergency Crews Help Crash Victims
    The wind chill was close to zero degrees Fahrenheit, caused by a combination of 20-degree weather and strong winds blowing at about 30 miles per hour, with black ice covering the road like a frozen lake...

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    Composite Conference 2012
    Las Cruces, NM
    August 13-17, 2012

    Composite Conference 2012 is focused on composite pressurized structures and vessels, and brings together the international composite community to discuss significant advances in composite performance, durability, and safety.

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    NASA & Jacobs Exhibit at ISPCS 2011

    The International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS) is the industry’s leading gathering for entrepreneurs and policy makers creating the emerging market of private access to space. With a theme of “Business at the Speed of Innovation,” more than 500 attended the 7th annual ISPCS Oct. 19-20 at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum to learn about the industry’s most recent developments. Prior to the conference, ISPCS hosted the Growing Community Partnership Luncheon for the general public.
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    Feeds Feed Families

    (August 2011) With local food banks facing severe shortages of nonperishable items, federal employees nationwide were challenged to step up and meet this need by gathering 2 million pounds of food for hungry families. Johnson Space Center (JSC) challenged its employees to donate enough food to match Space Shuttle Endeavour’s payload of 28,951 lbs. JSC’s White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) joined the Feds Feed Families Program with a food drive campaign that Sandy Ruttle, Hardware Processing Office Chief, officially kicked off June 1st. 
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    Innovation Day Innovation 2011 at White Sands Test Facility

    For the second year in a row, White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) celebrated the talented, imaginative employees whose unique ideas led to new discoveries and innovative ways to meet challenges. In conjunction with Johnson Space Center, WSTF’s festivities were conducted May 4, 2011 with an Innovation Day stand down so employees could participate in a myriad of planned activities. Innovation booths, displays, demonstrations, and rap sessions were conducted on site.
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