NASA Visitor Center (Wallops Flight Facility)

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NASA Visitor Center
NASA Visitor Center at Wallops Flight Facility 002 crop.jpg
Established 1982
Location Building J-17
Wallops Island, Virginia
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Type Space[1]
Website NASA Visitor Center

The NASA Visitor Center is located in Building J-17, Wallops Island, Virginia, United States along Route 175. It contains exhibits highlighting past missions conducted at Wallops Flight Facility.[1] The visitor center also provides information about current activities at Wallops Flight Facility, such as the sounding rockets, balloons and aircraft program. The outside grounds has rockets and aircraft used for space and aeronautical research including a full-scale four stage reentry vehicle used to study the earth's atmosphere.

Exhibits

Some exhibits include:

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

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 NASA. "Exhibits", NASA Visitor Center website. Retrieved on April 20, 2008.

Image gallery

  • NASA Visitor Center (WFF) Sign 1.jpg

    "Welcome to the NASA Visitor Center"

  • NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center Four-Stage Reentry Vehicle DSCF1016.jpg

    Four-Stage Reentry Vehicle

  • NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center Nike-Cajun sounding rocket DSCF1014.jpg

    Nike-Cajun sounding rocket

  • NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center Scout rocket exhibit DSCF1022.jpg

    Scout rocket

  • Robert L. Krieger Education Complex Plaque 1.jpg

    Plaque on Robert L. Kreiger Visitor Center Building

  • NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center Robert L. Kreiger Education Complex display DSCF1018.jpg

    One of the Education Complex displays in Robert L. Kreiger Education Complex

  • NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center Practice Space Suit for Russell Schweickart DSCF1023.jpg

    Practice Space Suit for Russell Schweickart

External links

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