| NASA Center: |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
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| Image # : |
WALLOPS7 |
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| Date : |
01/01/1982
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Title
Launch Row
Full Description
Located on Virginia's Eastern Shore, the Wallops Island Flight Facility shown in
this aerial view began as an auxiliary flight research station associated with
the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory in 1945. Its remote barrier-island location
on the Atlantic coast made it ideal for testing aircraft models and launching
small rockets. As the space program evolved, it became one of the agency's
mainstays for launching sounding rockets carrying scientific experiments. In the
1980s, however, a proposal emerged to close Wallops as a way of reducing NASA's
operating costs. Instead, NASA managers decided to incorporate the facility into
the Goddard Space Flight Center because the latter already was closely linked
with the facility because Goddard had a sounding rocket division that relied on
Wallops for launch, range, tracking and data support. In 1982, Wallops Island
Station became the Wallops Island Flight Facility managed under the "Suborbital
Projects and Operations" directorate at Goddard.
Keywords
Wallops Island
Subject Category
Wallops Island, Aerial Photographs,
Reference Numbers
- Center:
GSFC
- Center Number:
WALLOPS7
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2000-001323
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA
- Original Source: DIGITAL
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