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The Virginia Spaceport Authority, [1] formally better known as Virginia Space, is a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia focused on bringing commercial spaceflight to Virginia and providing education in aerospace technologies across the Commonwealth. Created in 1995 as the Virginia Commercial ...
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport ( MARS) is a commercial space 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 of Chincoteague, Virginia, United States. It is owned and operated by the Virginia Spaceport Authority .
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 States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and approximately 100 miles (160 km) north-northeast of Norfolk. The facility is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and primarily serves to support science and ...
Launch Pad 0 ( LP-0 ), also known as Launch Complex 0 ( LC-0 ), [2] [3] or Launch Area 0 ( LA-0 ), is a launch complex at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, Virginia, in the United States. MARS is located adjacent to NASA 's Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), [2] which ran the launch complex until 2003.
The Langley Research Center ( LaRC or NASA Langley ), located in Hampton, Virginia near the Chesapeake Bay front of Langley Air Force Base, is the oldest of NASA 's field centers. [1] LaRC has focused primarily on aeronautical research but has also tested space hardware such as the Apollo Lunar Module. In addition, many of the earliest high-profile space missions were planned and designed on ...
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The Leander McCormick Observatory is one of the astronomical observatories operated by the Department of Astronomy of the University of Virginia, and is situated just outside Charlottesville, Virginia (US) in Albemarle County on the summit of Mount Jefferson (also known as Observatory Hill).
The Virginia Air and Space Science Center is a museum and educational facility in Hampton, Virginia that also serves as the visitors center for NASA's Langley Research Center and Langley Air Force Base. The museum also features an IMAX digital theater [2] and offers summer aeronautic- and space-themed camps for children.