NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore continues to play a major role in the nation’s space program, with a history that stretches back to the final months of World War II.
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The Artemis II test flight will launch on Wednesday evening, sending NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on an approximately 10-day journey around the moon and back.
Three TOMEX+ mission sounding rockets launched successfully from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Aug. 28. creating a nighttime spectacle.
The NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is launching a sounding rocket carrying experiments from eight different student teams this Tuesday, Aug. 12 for the RockSat-X mission.
Guests attending Thursday's rocket launch from Wallops Flight Facility should plan to arrive early for a best possible viewing experience.
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility held a groundbreaking ceremony Monday to mark the start of construction on a new bridge that officials say is critical to supporting the site’s expanding space launch operations.
Snow Hill Middle School planted a Loblolly Pine sapling on campus. This sapling is one of NASA’s Artemis I Moon Trees which orbited the Moon aboard the Orion spacecraft during NASA’s 2022 Artemis I mission.
This Coastal Connection is sponsored by Baths by Spicer Bros. On Oct. 31, 1964 Lewes' Ted Freeman died when the jet he was piloting crashed near Houston, Texas. Freeman was part of NASA's third astronaut class. A class that featured four men who walked on the Moon.
The Virginia Space Flight Academy has partnered with Newport News Public Schools through a $2 million grant from the Department of Defense Education Activity aimed at enhancing STEM education across 12 schools.
Moments after the launch window opened at 5:30 am Thursday morning, the Terrier-improved Orion sounding rocket blasted off from the NASA facility. It is carrying several experiments from mostly college students. It is part of a program called RockSat-C.