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About WSTF:

  The NASA White Sands Test Facility (WSTF), located on the west slope of the San Andres mountains between Las Cruces, New Mexico, and the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), is a component of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

WSTF was constructed in 1963 to support the Apollo Project. It occupies 94 square miles in the southwest corner of the White Sands Missile Range. It has 98 buildings and 311,000 square feet. The test facility's plant value is $200 million, and its annual budget is $40 million.

The present workforce is 1200 people (over seventy percent scientific/technical): One half WSTF, the other half TDRSS and USAF employees. WSTF has 59 NASA Civil Service employees, and 485 contractors.  TDRSS has 9 NASA Civil Service employees and 610 contractors. 

WSTF also operates the White Sands Space Harbor (WSSH) which provides approach and landing training for Space Shuttle astronauts and serves as an alternate orbiter landing site.



Our Chief Steward for WSTF

  Lou Rosales
 

Our Chief Steward for Easi-FOSC

Tommy Black

 



Our Shop Stewards for WSTF 


100 Area (Drafting, EPA, ISS, Library, Mail, Purchasing, QA Clerks)

Mark Dunford
 mdunford@smtp3.wstf.nasa.gov



100 Area ( Warehouse, Facilities)

Eddie Rodriguez 
edrodrig@smtp3.wstf.nasa.gov  

 


100 Area ( Fab, Welding & Machine Shops)

Russell Buckley
russell.t.buckley@smtp3.wstf.nasa.gov


                                          

200 Area ( Elect & Mech Labs, Clean Room, Valve Shop, Photo Lab, Work Ctl, Pubs Typists) 

Leon Hernandez
 

 


200/800 ( Chem  lab, Environmental, Test Support) 

Ron Ledesma
rledesma@smtp3.wstf.nasa.gov

 


300/400/CTF ( Electrical)

Brian Gallivan
bgalliva@smtp3.wstf.nasa.gov

 


 300/400/ CTF ( Mechanical)

Chris Valdivia
cvaldivi@smtp3.wstf.nasa.gov



WSSH

 Scott Bernal
sbernal@wstf.nasa.gov

 

STGT 

Ron Schmidt
 
 
RSCHMIDT@mail.wsc.nasa.gov

 

WSTG 

 
Fernando Pedraza 
 
FPEDRAZA@mail.wsc.nasa.gov

 

WSC (Logistics ) 

 
Debra Russell
 DRUSSELL@mail.wsc.nasa.gov