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EXHIBITS
The Visitor Center at NASA Wallops Flight Facility provides an
educational and fun experience for visitors of all ages. We offer
many unique programs, special events, and educational opportunities
sure to capture the interest and imagination of all who explore our
visitor center.
Our 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 our Sounding Rockets
Program, Scientific Balloon Projects, Orbital Tracking Station and much
more.
Attend one of our 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.
NEW EXHIBIT
Science
On a Sphere
You won't
need a spacecraft to have an astronauts-eye-view of the
planets and moons in our solar system at our new Science On a
Sphere Theatre.
Science On a Sphere creates stunning visual effects from real
scientific data, and diplays them on a six-foot-diameter globe
suspended from the ceiling. The animated sphere seems to float in
space - just as an astronaut would see the Earth!
3D video projectors show the audience clear, striking images of
our Earth, storms on Jupiter, our moon Luna and more to help visitors
of all ages better understand our world and our solar system.
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Visitor
Center exhibits include
+ Scale models of space
probes, satellites and aircraft
+ A moon rock brought to Earth by Apollo 17 astronauts |
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Interactive
computer displays include
+ Fly Your Own Sounding
Rocket
+ NASA Launch Vehicles
+ Can You Find Your Way on Earth from Space? |
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Explore the Visitor Center grounds to discover our full scale rockets
and aircraft used for research at Wallops Flight Facility.
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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**
+ Return to the Visitor Center home
page
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