Was White Sands a reason Samuel L. Jackson was made prominent in culture?
He achieved prominence and critical acclaim in the early 1990s with films such as "Jungle Fever" (1991), "Patriot Games" (1992),
Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor and film producer.
 He achieved prominence and critical acclaim in the early 1990s with films such as "Jungle Fever" (1991), "Patriot Games" (1992), "Amos & Andrew" (1993), "True Romance" (1993), "Jurassic Park" (1993) and his collaborations with director Quentin Tarantino including "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Jackie Brown" (1997), "Django Unchained" (2012), and "The Hateful Eight" (2015).
 He is a highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including "Die Hard with a Vengeance" (1995), "Unbreakable" (2000), "Shaft" (2000), "The 51st State" (2001), "Black Snake Moan" (2006), "Snakes on a Plane" (2006), and the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy (1999–2005), as well as the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
White Sands (film)
White Sands is a 1992 crime film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Daniel Pyne for Warner Bros. Starring Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Samuel L. Jackson and Mickey Rourke, the film is about a U.S. southwestern small-town sheriff who finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000.
 He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.
White Sands Test Center
The White Sands Test Center (WSTC) is responsible for planning and conducting tests at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), New Mexico, USA.
 WSTC reports to the United States Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC).
 WSMR is designated as an activity within the Department of Defense (DoD) Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB), a core set of DoD Test and Evaluation (T&E) infrastructure and workforce preserved as a national asset to support the DoD acquisition system.
 The Range possesses capabilities and infrastructure utilized by the US Army, Navy, Air Force and other government agencies as well as universities, private industry, and foreign militaries.
 As a tri-service facility (Army, Navy, and Air Force), WSTC supports the Army by providing data collection and analysis, instrumentation development, modeling and simulation, research assessment, and technical services. White Sands Pupfish (baseball)
The White Sands Pupfish are a professional baseball team based in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
 The team is a member of the Pecos League, an independent baseball league which is not affiliated with Major or Minor League Baseball.
 They were originally known as the Coastal Kingfish and played in the Continental Baseball League.
 For the 2009 season, the Kingfish was a traveling team without a home ballpark.
 In early April 2010, the Coastal Kingfish replaced the West Texas Road Hogs as the CBL travel team.
 The Kingfish joined the Pecos League in 2011 as the White Sands Pupfish, and relocated to Alamogordo, New Mexico. White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World is a 2016 travel book written by Geoff Dyer.
 The book was previously titled "White Sands".
 The writer described the book as a mixture of fiction and non-fiction.
 The book's narration begins in Tahiti.
 White Sands, is a collection of travel-related essays, short stories, photographs and vignettes. White Sands V-2 Launching Site
The White Sands V-2 Launching Site, also known as Launch Complex 33 and originally as Army Launch Area Number 1, is a historic rocket launch complex at White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico.
 It was here that the United States first performed test launches of German V-2 rockets captured toward the end of World War II.
 These test where the first step in both military advances in rocketry, and in the development of the United States space exploration programs.
 The site was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985. Southwestern fence lizard
The southwestern fence lizard ("Sceloporus cowlesi") also known as the White Sands prairie lizard or the White Sands swift is species of spiny lizard native to the Chihuahuan Desert of the southwest United States and north-central Mexico.
 Described in 1956 as "Sceloporus undulatus cowlesi", subspecies of the eastern fence lizard, DNA studies elevated the southwestern fence lizard to species status. V-2 No. 13
The White Sands rocket (official name V-2 No. 13) was a modified V2 rocket that became the first man-made object to take a photograph of the Earth from outer space.
 Launched on October 24, 1946, at the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico, the rocket reached a maximum altitude of . White Sands Ranch
White Sands Ranch ( ) is a locale of private land in Otero County, New Mexico, near federal lands of the Tularosa Basin acquired during World War II.
 Located on the border of the White Sands Missile Range on census block 1168 between Las Cruces and Alamogordo, the site is ~40 mi northeast of the White Sands Census Designated Place.
 Part of the White Sands Ranchers of New Mexico vs. United States legal case denied additional Takings Clause remuneration, the ranch includes numerous buildings and a pond on Wsmr S Rt 250. White Sands Space Harbor
White Sands Space Harbor (WSSH) was a Space Shuttle runway, a test site for rocket research, and the primary training area used by NASA for Space Shuttle pilots practicing approaches and landings in the Shuttle Training Aircraft and T-38 Talon aircraft.
 With its runways, navigational aids, runway lighting, and control facilities, it also served as a backup Shuttle landing site.
 WSSH is a part of the White Sands Test Facility, and is located approximately 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of Alamogordo, New Mexico, within the boundaries of the White Sands Missile Range.