Yep, you betcha! An enterprising reporter for the Camp Verde Bugle wrote a great historical piece recently. Practically everyone we know in Arizona knows that the lunar astronauts trained for their moon missions out in the cinder fields north of Flagstaff. That's old news. What none of us knew was that they had TWO training sites--the famous one by Flagstaff and the heretofore unknown site right smack dab outside of Cottonwood near the Ogden Ranch Road. Amazing but true. The gubmint used huge quantities of explosive to blast hundreds of craters in the Mingus Mountain foothills. When it was too cold and snowy to train up in Flagstaff, the astronauts came down to Da Verde to train. It's an amazing story. We printed it to PDF and then uploaded the story on our Goodle Doc's so it's preserved for posterity.
Click here to read all about it.
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