NASA Visitor Center (Wallops Flight Facility)
| NASA Visitor Center | |
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| Established | 1982 |
| Location |
Building J-17 Wallops Island, Virginia |
| Coordinates | 37°56′19″N 75°27′26″W / 37.9386°N 75.45736°W |
| 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
- NASA
- NASA Visitor Center -- Visitor centers at other NASA facilities
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 NASA. "Exhibits", NASA Visitor Center website. Retrieved on April 20, 2008.
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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Scout rocket
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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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Practice Space Suit for Russell Schweickart
External links
- NASA Visitor Center (official website)