 What is White Sands?
Outside its bright steel hull was the silence of the interplanetary vacuum; inside, in the hospital ward, Lieutenant Alice Britton clutched at the sheets of her bed in pain, then relaxed as it faded away. But as soon as we get within radio range of White Sands, I'll ask them to send up an emergency rocket with an incubator. Major Banes was in the Communications Center a full five minutes before the coastline of California appeared on the curved horizon of the globe beneath them. WHITE SANDS ROCKET BASE 4 JULY 1984 0913 Colonel Gates, the O.B. man, was supposed to come up for the delivery in September, so when White Sands contacted us, they said he was coming immediately."
 A rocket base in New Mexico.
 A city in New Mexico.  A rocket base in New Mexico.  An obstetrics facility in New Mexico.  A mission control base in New Mexico.