Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center

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Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center
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Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center
Established1982 (1982)
LocationBuilding J-17
Wallops Island, Virginia
Coordinates 37°56′19″N75°27′26″W / 37.9386°N 75.45736°W / 37.9386; -75.45736
TypeSpace 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]

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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:

See also

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.