Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center

Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center

Established	1982 (1982)
Location	Building J-17 Wallops Island, Virginia
Coordinates	37°56′19″N75°27′26″W / 37.9386°N 75.45736°W / 37.9386; -75.45736
Type	Space museum
Website	NASA Visitor Center

The Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center is located in Building J-17, Wallops Island, Virginia, United States along Route 175. It contains exhibits highlighting past missions conducted at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. ^[1] The visitor center also provides information about current activities at Wallops Flight Facility, such as the sounding rocket, balloon and aircraft program. The outside grounds has a rocket garden consisting of rockets and aircraft used for space and aeronautical research, including a full-scale four-stage reentry vehicle used to study the Earth's atmosphere. In addition, the visitor center has educational programs on Earth and space science. It is also a viewing area for rocket launches. ^[2]

History

The visitor center was established in 1982. It is named Robert L. Krieger Education Complex after the long term head of Wallops Flight Facility.

Exhibits

Some exhibits include:

• Moon rock from Apollo 17
• Scale models of rockets, satellites, research equipment and aircraft
• Science On a Sphere ^[3]
• Hands-on interactive demonstrations and educational videos
• Observation deck for watching launches from Wallops Flight Facility
• Model rocket launches
• Earth As Art

Image gallery

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  "Welcome to the NASA Visitor Center"
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  Four-Stage Reentry Vehicle
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  Nike-Cajun sounding rocket
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  Little Joe, to test Mercury spacecraft
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  Plaque on Robert L. Kreiger Visitor Center Building
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  One of the Education Complex displays in Robert L. Kreiger Education Complex
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  Training spacesuit for Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart
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  Main sign at the NASA Visitor Center (Wallops Flight Facility)
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  Historic sign at the NASA Visitor Center (Wallops Flight Facility)

See also

• List of NASA Visitor Centers

Notes

1. Lapole, Shirley (May 1, 2015). "Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center: About Us". NASA. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
2. Kaplan, Melanie D.G. The Washington Post , "Walloped by a rocket launch on Virginia’s Wallops Island", 23 January 2014. Retrieved on 25 January 2017.
3. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website. "Science On a Sphere". Retrieved 25 January 2017.

External links

• NASA Visitor Center (official website)