Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center
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Established | 1982 |
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Location | Building J-17 Wallops Island, Virginia |
Coordinates | 37°56′19″N 75°27′26″W / 37.9386°N 75.45736°W |
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
[edit]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
[edit]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
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Notes
[edit]- ^ Lapole, Shirley (1 May 2015). "Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center: About Us". NASA. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website. "Science On a Sphere". Retrieved 25 January 2017.
External links
[edit]- NASA Visitor Center (official website)