BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:f76404a382c923fcd18fbdb1b32a56ee CATEGORIES:Weekend Getaway CREATED:20180926T132904 SUMMARY:Weekend Getaway to White Sands Missile Range LOCATION:White Sands Missile Range, Alamogordo Regional Municipal Airport (KALM) in New Mexico DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Getaway to White Sands Missile Range\nOctober 5 - 7\nThe main tour of this site is only open to the public twice a year.\n\n\n \nRSVP Today - Ema il Brad and Kit\nThis email address is being protected from spambots. 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It has be en arranged with Enterprise Car Rental to drop off a couple of rental cars for us to caravan around for the weekend.\n\n\n\n\nOnce everyone’s ar rived, we’ll be off to Pistachio Land which is home of the World's La rgest Pistachio, McGinn's Pistachio Tree Ranch, McGinn's Country Store, and the Arena Blanca Winery. The McGinn family grows the best s election of award winning pistachio nuts on their family's 111 ac re farm. They also make fabulous wines from their vineyards. They KNOW they're the best because they grow them, package them, make candy wit h them... everything from the ground to the final packaged product and they guarantee you will find these Pistachios and Wines to be the best anywhere !\n\n \n\n\nThe vineyard wine is produced by Tim McGinn, their winemaker. T he APA has been offered a private motorized tour of their orchards and vine yards where they will tell us about their family farm history, pistachio an d grape growing, harvesting and the story behind the World's Largest Pistac hio.\n\n\n\n\nAfter our tour, let’s go get a bite to eat at the famou s Rockin' BZ Burgers. Rockin BZ Burgers serves a never frozen, hand-made, h igh quality ground chuck angus patty on a made fresh daily potato bun. They offer special toppings such as fried egg, pineapple, sautéed mushro oms, green chili, sauerkraut, and much more including all the usual condime nts. You can build your own burger and they’ll make it custom, just h ow you like it.\n\n \n\n\nSaturday will start early, so off we go to the Wh ite Sands Motel. This motel is Alamogordo’s only AAA approved, indepe ndent motel. Even with their recent renovations, this immaculate facility s till has low rates, friendly staff, and is within walking distance of major restaurants. They’ve even booked us on the “mountain view&rdqu o; side of the motel. This is a convenient motel for our fly-in as it is on ly 4 miles from the Space Museum and 12 miles from the White Sands National Monument.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nSATURDAY – October 6th:\n\n\n\n\n&nbs p;\nToday starts early. We need to get ourselves to the Space Museum for a quick breakfast and to the chartered bus for a guided tour at the popular T rinity Site. It’s the site of the first detonation of an atomic bomb in 1945 and is located within the White Sands Missile Range. The scenery is wonderful, as the area has not been grazed since 1945. There are great vie ws of the low Oscura Mountains to the east. The Little Burro Mountains are visible to the southeast of the tour route and the Mockingbird Mountains ar e south. The southern-most road is the northern perimeter of the White Sands Missile Range which starts and ends in Tularosa, where our char tered bus and guided tour begins.\n\n\n \nFor those of you not familia r with the missile range, the\n\n\n \nWhite Sands Missile Range ( WSMR) is a United States Army military testing area of almost 3,200 sq uare miles, in parts of five counties in southern New Mexico. The larg est military installation in the United States, WSMR and the 600,000 acre M cGregor Range Complex at Fort Bliss to the south (southeast Tularosa Basin) and on Otero Mesa are contiguous areas for military te sting. On 9 July 1945, the White Sands Proving Ground was established for testing German and American long range rockets. Just seven days later, the first atomic bomb test, code named Trinity, was exploded at T rinity Site, near the north boundary of the range.\n\n\n \n\n\n \ n\n\nThe tour includes making a side trip to the McDonald ranch, where the first A-bomb was assembled. \nAfter our tour of the White Sands Missile Ran ge and Trinity Site we will receive another guided tour at \nThe Museum of Space History. Which contains exhibitions ranging from Robert God dard's early rocket experiments near Roswell to a mock-up of the Internatio nal Space Station.\n\n - The International Space Hall of Fame. Commemorates the achievements of men and women who have furthered humanity's exploratio n of space.\n - The John P. Stapp Air & Space Park. Displays larger exh ibits, such as the Apollo program's Little Joe II rocket and the rocket sle d that "Fastest Man Alive" Stapp rode to 632 mph.\n - Daisy Track. Commemor ates aeromedical and space related tests which were crucial in developing c omponents for NASA's Project Mercury orbital flights and the Project Apollo moon landings.\n - The Clyde W. Tombaugh Education Center.  Home to t he museum’s Education programs, the Center includes classrooms for on -site group and summer camp programs, the education and marketing offices, and the New Horizons Theater. The extra wide hallways at the Center showcas e the Smithsonian exhibit Earth from Space and, in the lobby, the interactive exhibit Magic Planet. \n - The New Horizons Dome Theater and Planetarium. Named for the spacecraft that flew by Pluto in 2015, it is the first dome theater in the world to feature the Spitz SciDome 4k Laser full dome planetarium system. The theater offers giant screen films, full dome d igital planetarium shows and live star talks.\n - Astronaut Memorial Garden . A tribute to the Apollo 1 and Space Shuttle Challenger & Columbia ast ronauts.\n - The Hubbard Space Science Research Building. Home to the Museu m's new archives and library and Curatorial Department. Researchers and stu dents will find an academic-based collection of New Mexico space history, H olloman Air Force Base and White Sands Missile Range information and photos , as well as NASA publications, photos, and collections. In addition, the b uilding houses the museum’s small artifacts and collections.The Museu m Support Center. The facility where Museum employees and volunteers conser ve and restore the many large artifacts exhibited at the Museum.\n \nA fter the long day, how about a relaxing meal and some conversation at Rizo& rsquo;s Authentic Mexican Food? Rizo’s has  been touted as the best Mexican restaurant in town. The menu includes Street tacos, Sopes, Hur aches, Enchiladas, Tortas, Flautas, Fajitas, Chimichangas, Nachos…. All reasonably priced and served up by friendly staff. There’s even m enudo on Saturday & Sunday, for those who can handle it! \n\n\n&nb sp;\nSUNDAY – October 7th:\n\n\nHate to say it, but we have to go bac k to the present… The motel has coffee makers, microwaves, and fridg es. We can stock up on anything you might want to munch on at the nearby ma rket.\n\n\nThe cars don’t have to be back until noon… Maybe la ter, as no one picks them up on Sunday. We could just do a wander around to wn.\n\n\nHope to see you there! Let me know A.S.A.P. if you’re intere sted. This is a pretty reasonable weekend. ALL of the above will run less t han $500 for TWO people for the weekend! Contact me for the breakdown etc.\ n\n\n This email address is being protected from spambots. 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