1
21
48
47
39
12
40
43
25
23
44
19
28
17
37
9
3
41
27
10
35
46
14
32
2
4
51
18
20
45
15
6
26
38
52
33
7
42
11
24
49
30
29
13
36
31
5
8
16
22
34
50
ALAMOGORDO
CLOUDCROFT
RUIDOSO
CARRIZOZO
ROSWELL
SOCORRO
TRUTH OR
CONSEQUENCES
ARTESIA
LAS CRUCES
FORT SUMNER
CLOVIS
SCHOLLE
ALBUQUERQUE
ZUNI PUEBLO
NAVAJO RESERVATION
SANTA FE
FARMINGTON
CHACO CANYON
LOS ALAMOS
TAOS
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- 100 BC – AD 900: *Wizard’s Roost Observatory (archeoastronomy)
- AD 850-1000: *Wally’s Dome Observatory (archeoastronomy)
- AD 150-1400: *Tenuco Petroglyphs Site (archeoastronomy)
- AD 900-1400: Three Rivers Petroglyphs Site (archeoastronomy)
- 11th Century: Chaco Canyon Sky Watcher’s Station (archeoastronomy)
- AD 1054: *Scholle Crab Nebula Supernova Petroglyph (archeoastronomy)
- AD 1054: Zuni Pueblo Crab Nebula Supernova Petroglyph (archeoastronomy)
- 1680’s and afterwards: Sand Paintings, Navajo Reservation (archeoastronomy)
- 1888: *Las Cruces College (1960: renamed New Mexico State University)
- 1930-1932 and 1934-1941: *Robert Goddard Rocket Research site
- 1941: *Kirtland Air Force Base
- June 10, 1942: *Holloman Air Force Base
- February 1943: *Los Alamos National Laboratory
- 1942-1967: *Roswell Army Air Field (1948: renamed Walker Air Force Base)
- 1942-1947: *Clovis Army Air Base (1957: renamed Cannon Air Force Base)
- 1945: *Sandia National Laboratory
- February 20, 1945: *White Sands Missile Range
- July 16, 1945: *Trinity Site - Open first Saturday in April & October for public tours.
- 1946: *NMSU Physical Science Laboratory
- July 4, 1947: *Alleged UFO Crash Site
- 1947: National Solar Observatory, Sacramento Peak, Sunspot, NM.
Sunspot Astronomy and Visitors Center. - Mid 1950’s: University of New Mexico Campus Observatory
- 1957:*New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (Sub-Gravity Research)
- 1959:*Lovelace Medical Center (Mercury astronaut fitness tests)
- 1959: *McGregor Range
- 1960: *New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology (NMT)
- Early 1960’s:*Atlas Missile silos
- 1962: *NASA Johnson Space Center’s White Sands Test Facility
- 1963: Bradbury Science Museum
- 1964, 1966 & 1971: Valles Caldera National Preserve (Apollo training)
- June 1964: *Philmont Boy Scout Ranch (Apollo astronaut training)
- 1965-1982: *U.S. Air Force Observatory
2006: *Tzec Maun Observatory www.tzecmaun.org - 1965 & 1967:*Zuni Salt Lake (Apollo astronaut training)
- 1969: National Museum of Nuclear Science and History
- 1969: Roswell Museum and Art Center’s Goddard Special Exhibit
- 1971:Taos/Rio Grande Gorge (Apollo astronaut training)
- September 1972: *Clyde W. Tombaugh Campus Observatory (NMSU)
- April 1973: Very Large Array Radio Telescope (upgrade completed 2012)
- October 5, 1976: New Mexico Museum of Space History;
Home of the NMMSH Rocketeer Academy - 1976: *Northrup Strip (Shuttle Landing Training Facility)
1982: *Renamed White Sands Space Harbor - 1976: *Tortugas Mountain Planetary Observatory (NMSU)
- 1979: *University of New Mexico’s Capilla Peak Observatory
- 1981: *High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility
- 1983:*Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
- March 1986:*Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility
- 1992: International UFO Museum and Research Center
- May 10, 1994: *Apache Point Observatory, Sunspot, NM
- July 23, 1995: Comet Hale Bopp co-discovered, Cloudcroft, NM
- 2000: NM Museum of Natural History & Science/Planetarium
- April 4, 2006: *Spaceport America
- April 4, 2006: *Virgin Galactic International Headquarters
- 2008:*Magdalena Ridge Observatory
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