Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center

Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center

Established	1982 (1982)
Location	Building J-17 Wallops Island, Virginia
Coordinates	37°56′19″N 75°27′26″W / 37.9386°N 75.45736°W / 37.9386; -75.45736
Type	Space museum
Website	NASA Visitor Center

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.

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
• Hands-on interactive demonstrations and educational videos
• Observation deck for watching launches from Wallops Flight Facility
• Model rocket launches
• Earth As Art

Image gallery

• 
  "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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  Little Joe, to test Mercury spacecraft
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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
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  Main sign at the NASA Visitor Center (Wallops Flight Facility)
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  Historic sign at the NASA Visitor Center (Wallops Flight Facility)

See also

• List of NASA Visitor Centers

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Notes

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

External links

• NASA Visitor Center (official website)