Wallops Flight Center (NASA)

Name:	Wallops Flight Center (NASA)
Category:	Research and Development
Archive ID#:	VA3128
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Description:	A flight and rocket test complex, associated with NASA's Goddard Center, located on three separate sites on the Virginia coast, and totaling 6,200 acres. Most of the facilities are at the Main Base, including a research airport with two runways, aircraft hangars, assembly buildings, tracking station antennas, and research labs. Wallops Island houses the launch range, a battery of launch pads where over 14,000 launches have taken place since the opening of the installation in 1945. Many of the launches are sounding rockets, which are expendable data recording and measuring rockets, launched to study a specific aspect of the atmosphere or space. Wallops Mainland, located across from Wallops Island, has an array of tracking stations for satellites and rockets launched in the area. The installation employs over 1,000 people.
Location:	105 miles E of Richmond, near Chincoteague (POINT(-75.466375350952 37.940203862846)) (show on map)
Address:	Chincoteague VA, 23336
Visitor Info:	Has Visitors Center on Wallops Island.
Links:	http://www.wff.nasa.gov/
LCS:	Aerospace R&D, R&D
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