Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center Explained

The Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center is located in Building J-17, Wallops Island, Virginia, United States along Route 175. It contains exhibits highlighting past missions conducted at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.^[1] The visitor center also provides information about current activities at Wallops Flight Facility, such as the sounding rocket, balloon and aircraft program. The outside grounds has a rocket garden consisting of rockets and aircraft used for space and aeronautical research, including a full-scale four-stage reentry vehicle used to study the Earth's atmosphere. In addition, the visitor center has educational programs on Earth and space science. It is also a viewing area for rocket launches.^[2]

History

The visitor center was established in 1982. It is named Robert L. Krieger Education Complex after the long term head of Wallops Flight Facility.

Exhibits

Some exhibits include:

• Moon rock from Apollo 17
• Scale models of rockets, satellites, research equipment and aircraft
• Science On a Sphere^[3]
• Hands-on interactive demonstrations and educational videos
• Observation deck for watching launches from Wallops Flight Facility
• Model rocket launches
• Earth As Art

See also

• List of NASA Visitor Centers

Notes

1. Web site: Lapole. Shirley. Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center: About Us. NASA. 15 June 2017. en. 1 May 2015.
2. Kaplan, Melanie D.G. The Washington Post, "Walloped by a rocket launch on Virginia’s Wallops Island", 23 January 2014. Retrieved on 25 January 2017.
3. [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]

External links

• NASA Visitor Center (official website)