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Ranches to Rockets Ft. Jim Eckles (Part 2)
Welcome to the latest episode of Preserving History and Democracy!
We're excited to welcome back author and historian Jim Eckles for Part 2 of our Ranches to Rockets series. In this episode, Eckles continues to unravel the fascinating—and often overlooked—story of how southern New Mexico became ground zero for America's early rocket testing.
He begins by explaining the skepticism and resistance to the concept of rockets in the early 1940s. From there, we explore how Germany quickly embraced rocketry as a weapon of war, and how the United States soon followed suit—identifying Alamogordo as a…
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