Science and Exploration

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Celebrates its 70th Anniversary

By Marc Boucher
Status Report
June 22, 2015
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NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Celebrates its 70th Anniversary
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility Celebrates its 70th Anniversary.
NASA Wallops Flight Facility.

June 27, 2015, marks the 70th Anniversary of the first launch ever from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Since then, the men and women of Wallops have launched literally thousands of rockets, hundreds of scientific balloons, and have logged thousands of flight hours in support of scientific investigations around the world.

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