New Space Fun Fact: Roswell Army Airfield post WWII

The Roswell Army Airfield moved into the post-World War II Atomic age very quickly. The airfield was renamed Walker Air Force Base and it became one of the strategic air command’s premier installations.

Housing two-thirds of America’s nuclear triad with nuclear-armed bombers and nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, Walker kept alert crews ready to go to war throughout the 1950s and 1960s until its closure in 1967.

Eastern New Mexico University has built a large campus on the west side of the former base, however, much of the base still has the look and feel of the former Air Force base. In 2005, the base was used for a secret Foo Fighters concert celebrating the band’s tenth anniversary.