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    Chincoteague Island, a popular tourist destination. Wallops Island proper, originally known as Kegotank Island, was granted to John Wallop by the Crown...
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    Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) (IATA: WAL, ICAO: KWAL, FAA LID: WAL) is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United...
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    launch facility located at the southern tip of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island in Virginia, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and south...
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    The Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center is located in Building J-17, Wallops Island, Virginia, United States along Route 175. It contains exhibits highlighting...
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    Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia, United States. Rocket Lab has launched one sub-orbital HASTE rocket to date from Wallops Island, Virginia. In...
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    and 1971 at CELPA (El Chamical), CELPA (Mar Chiquita), Tartagal and Wallops Island. Developed by the Instituto de Investigaciones Aeronauticas y Espaciales...
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  • Administration (NOAA). External facilities of the GSFC include the Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Virginia, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at...
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    ascent abort at maximum dynamic pressure. The mission was launched from Wallops Island, Virginia. Sixteen seconds after liftoff, the escape rocket and the...
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    booster rocket used by NASA for eight launches from 1959 to 1961 from Wallops Island, Virginia to test the launch escape system and heat shield for Project...
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    museums: Beebe Ranch, and the Museum of Chincoteague Island. With the designation of the nearby Wallops Flight Facility as the launch site for the Antares...
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    up at several different test sites, including Fort Greely, Alaska, Wallops Island, Virginia, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and White Sands Missile...
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    and parts of the station were incorporated into the Wallops Island facility, later named Wallops Flight Facility. NASA History SP-4401 - NASA Sounding...
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    Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, Virginia, in the United States. MARS is located adjacent to NASA's Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), which ran...
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    Goddard Space Center, Maryland. Little Joe rockets were launched from Wallops Island, Virginia. Astronaut training took place at Langley Research Center...
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    the MX-570 begin in late 1944, the first missiles to be launched at Wallops Island under the auspices of the Langley Research Center; MX-570 was slightly...
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    Mercury spacecraft. The mission was launched January 21, 1960, from Wallops Island, Virginia. The Little Joe 1B flew to an apogee of 9.3 statute miles...
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    backbarrier island, like Rogue and Skidmore islands further south. Wallops Island - the base of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. Assawoman Island - part of...
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    Assateague Island is a 37-mile (60 km) long barrier island located off the eastern coast of the Delmarva Peninsula facing the Atlantic Ocean. The northern...
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    plastics fabrication. Pocomoke City is located near the Wallops Island Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. Beginning in the late seventeenth century...
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    sounding rocket. The Deacon was launched 90 times from 1947 to 1957 from Wallops Island, and it also was the rocket portion of the first rockoons, launched...
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  • "Wallops Flight Facility: NASA Spaceport in Virginia". Space.com. Retrieved 2024-03-14. "Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport - MARS - Wallops Island Space...
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  • Mark. "Wallops Island LA0A". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on 2008-11-20. Retrieved 2009-01-21. Wade, Mark. "Matagorda Island". Encyclopedia...
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    Suborbital launches from Wallops Island and the equatorial platform, Orbital launch of an experimental satellite from Wallops Island, Orbital launches from...
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  • The Wallops Island National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge located on Wallops Island, Virginia; the refuge was created on July 10, 1975...
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    The probe was launched on June 18, 1976 from the NASA-Wallops Flight Center in Wallops Island, Virginia. The probe was carried via a Scout rocket, and...
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    S., and at other facilities in the US, including the Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island in East Coast of the United States, Virginia. At a NASA...
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  • Complex Kennedy Space Center Merritt Island, Florida WFF Visitor Center Wallops Flight Facility Wallops Island, Virginia U.S. Space & Rocket Center Marshall...
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    other possible launch sites were evaluated including Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia, and Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Launch Complex...
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  • Hampton Roads, formerly Fleet Combat Training Center Atlantic Dam Neck Wallops Island ASCS Naval Station Everett Naval Base Kitsap Naval Submarine Base Bangor...
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    humans. The flight was launched December 4, 1959, at 11:15 a.m. ET from Wallops Island, Virginia, United States. Little Joe 2 flew to an altitude of 55 miles...
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