Visiting Wallops Flight Facility

Wallops Flight Facility is located on Wallops Island, VA.

The Visitor Center is located on Route 175, six miles from Route 13 and five miles from Chincoteague, VA. It is a 50-minute drive from Salisbury and Ocean City, MD and 90-minutes from the Chesapeak Bay Bridge Tunnel.

Here is a map to Wallops Flight Facility Visitor's Center.

The Visitor Center at NASA Wallops Flight Facility provides an educational and fun experience for visitors of all ages.It offers many unique programs, special events, and educational opportunities sure to capture the interest and imagination of all. The exhibit hall and museum take you on a journey through past projects conducted at Wallops Flight Facility and carry you to the present where you will learn about their Sounding Rockets Program, Scientific Balloon Projects, Orbital Tracking Station and much more. Attend one of their fun filled children's programs, participate in an exciting model rocket launch or even view an actual sounding rocket launch from our newly installed observation deck. Launch Schedule

Exhibits:

• EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE:
  From Explorer 1 in the late 1950's to modern day spacecraft such as Deep Impact and Mars exploration rovers, NASA has strived to increase our understanding of our home planet, our solar system and ultimately the universe. Their newest exhibit highlights these missions and what we've learned from them.
• Scale models of space probes, satellites and aircraft
• A moon rock brought to Earth by Apollo 17 astronauts

Interactive computer displays:

• Fly Your Own Sounding Rocket
• NASA Launch Vehicles
• Can You Find Your Way on Earth from Space?

Explore the Visitor Center grounds to discover their full scale rockets and aircraft used for research at Wallops Flight Facility.

Wallops Educator Resource Center:

The Wallops Educator Resource Center gives educators the opportunity to access materials based on NASA's unique mission and results.

Educators such as teachers, home school teachers, and scout and church group leaders have the opportunity to preview, copy and/or receive NASA instructional products.

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Services Available At The Wallops ERC:

Through the NASA Educator Resource Center Network (ERCN), NASA provides expertise and facilities to help educators access and utilize science, mathematics and technology instructional products aligned with national standards and appropriate state frameworks.

NASA educational resources fall under learning categories such as:

• Earth Science
• Space Science
• Living and Working in Space
• Aeronautics
• Aerospace
• Mathematics
• Science
• Technology
• Geography

Materials are designed to supplement K - University curriculum. Printed materials are available, however complete curriculum guides are not.Information about NASA educational programs is available for students and teachers, including NASA Educational Workshops (NEW), Aerospace Education Services Program (AESP), the Space Experiment Module program (SEM), and the NASA Student Involvement Program (NSIP).

The Wallops ERC houses a collection of NASA educational videotapes which may be copied for educational purposes. Video duplication must be done in person and the teacher must provide his/her own VHS tapes. The Educator Resource Center does not provide mail-order duplication or loan services.A catalog including many of the available tapes is online: CORE website

ERC Information:

• Open: Thursday - Saturday (June 30 - September 3)
• Hours: 10 AM - 4 PM
• **September 6 - June 29 by appointment only. Please contact the ERC Coordinator to schedule an appointment.
• Wallops ERC Coordinator: Jonna Krabill
• Phone: (757) 824-2297
• Email: jkrabill@pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov

Newly Updated Earth As Art Exhibit:

View our planet through beautiful images taken by various satellites in a program administered jointly by USGS and NASA. These artistic images, created by the USGS EROS Data Center, convey visually thrilling perspectives of our home planet Earth.

Wallops Gift Shop:

Located inside the Visitor Center, the Gift Shop offers models, patches, games, clothing and a variety of NASA souvenirs. Gift Shop Hours of operation are the same as the Visitor Center.

**The Gift Shop is open March - November**