White Sands Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) is a site at

White Sands Missile Range White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) is a United States Army military testing area and firing range located in the US state of New Mexico. The range was originally established as the White Sands Proving Ground on 9July 1945. White Sands National P ...

used for launches of the

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IX and Black Brant 9CM1. It was also used from May 1964 and January 1966 to launch the

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rocket for the Apollo Program. The complex continues to be used as one of the primary launch sites for NASA's sounding rocket program, along with those at Wallops Flight Facility.

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