White Sands Test Facility

White Sands Test Facility

Agency overview
Formed	1963
Jurisdiction	Federal government of the United States
Headquarters	Las Cruces, New Mexico
Parent agency	Johnson Space Center NASA
Website	nasa.gov/centers/wstf

White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) is a U.S. government rocket engine test facility and a resource for testing and evaluating potentially hazardous materials, space flight components, and rocket propulsion systems. NASA established WSTF on the White Sands Missile Range in 1963.^[1] WSTF services are available to NASA, the United States Department of Defense, other federal agencies, universities and commercial industry. WSTF is managed by the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. WSTF is located in the western foothills of the Organ Mountains, eleven miles east of Las Cruces, New Mexico.