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	Wallops Flight Facility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wallops Flight Facility is tasked to meet the needs of the United States' aerospace technology interests and science research.
		Wallops Island houses the launch range, a battery of launch pads where over 14,000 launches have taken place since the opening of the installation in 1945.
		Wallops Mainland, located across from Wallops Island, has an array of tracking stations for satellites and rockets launched in the area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wallops_Flight_Facility (848 words)

	Wallops Island National Wildlife Refuge - Virginia State Park - - nearby SALISBURY
		The agreement with NASA covers approximately 3,000 acres of Wallops Island proper and is primarily salt marsh.
		Wallops Island NWR and the agreement with NASA are administered by the staff at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.
		The Wallops Island NWR was opened for the first time ever to public hunting in 2002 to reduce the affects of overbrowsing by deer on refuge habitats and reduce the potential of deer collision with vehicles on the adjacent state highway 175 and neighboring flight facility.
	www.stateparks.com /wallops_island.html (659 words)

	Wallops Island
		Wallop was born in New York City in 1933, and graduated from Yale University in 1954, afterwards serving briefly in the Army and then working for many years as a businessman and cattle rancher.
		The island is of volcanic origin and lies to the south of Saint Thomas in the Charlotte Amalie harbor.
		The island served as the quarantine station for Otago in the latter 19th and early 20th centuries.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/220/wallops-island.html (1352 words)

	The Final Frontier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Wallops Island, at the northern end of Virginia's Eastern Shore near Chincoteague Island, was owned by a fishing and hunting club until 1945.
		Wallops, which is in Accomack County, is an extension of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and it is known for launching small rockets and conducting earth science research.
		The island is secluded, and nearby land is sparsely populated.
	www.virginiabusiness.com /magazine/yr1999/jan99/cover.html (2641 words)

	Wallops Island -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The research and responsibilities of Wallops Flight Facility are centered around the philosophy of providing a fast, low cost, highly flexible and safe response to meet the needs of the United States` aerospace technology interests and science research.
		Wallops expects an increase in commercial launch activity in the very near future.
		The Wallops Flight Facility manages the NASA Balloon Program, which offers capabilities and benefits for scientific research that cannot be duplicated by other methods.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wa/wallops_island.htm (975 words)

	Wallops Island National Wildlife Refuge
		Wallops Island National Wildlife Refuge was acquired by the US Fish and Wildlife Service as a transfer of property from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
		Wallops Island proper, originally known as Kegotank Island, was granted to John Wallop by the Crown on April 29, 1692.
		The Club was incorporated and assumed ownership in 1933 as the Wallops Island Association, Inc. Association members and their families spent the summers on the island fishing and swimming.
	www.fws.gov /refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=51571 (862 words)

	Wallops Island
		Air launches are conducted from the Drop Zone Wallops Island, 37.00 N 72.0 W. NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), built facilities at Wallops to conduct aeronautical research using rocket-propelled vehicles.
		Wallops continued to support academic and government programs and projects using sounding rockets, balloons and scientific aircraft to facilitate research of the Earth, all regions of the atmosphere and the near-Earth and space environment.
		LJ-2 was launched from Wallops Island to determine the motions of the spacecraft escape tower combination during a high-altitude abort, entry dynamics without a control system, physiological effects of acceleration on a small primate, operation of the drogue parachute, and effectiveness of the recovery operation.
	www.astronautix.com /sites/walsland.htm (9056 words)

	NASA - Wallops Island - 60 Years of Exploration
		Further down on the island, crews that have been at work since two in the morning go through the final steps to prepare a rocket for launch, just as they and others have done for the past 60 years-- another day begins at America’s oldest continuous rocket range – Wallops Island.
		With the establishment of NASA in 1958, Wallops’ role in the new space agency changed and it was renamed Wallops Station.
		In 1981, Wallops became a part of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and was renamed the Wallops Flight Facility.
	www.nasa.gov /vision/earth/everydaylife/wallops_60th.html (905 words)

	Wallops Island on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		(wäl´leps), island, 6 sq mi (15.5 sq km), Accomack co., E Va., off the Atlantic coast of the Delmarva pensinsula S of Chincoteaque island.
		NASA has a facility there and on the neighboring mainland; the island is one of the oldest rocket launch sites (est.
		Storm's first punch hits hard ; Sea walls and shore roads are damaged in Camp Ellis, boats are set adrift and a second wallop is expected.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/WallopsI1sl.asp (254 words)

	Housing Information
		This award was based on resident satisfaction surveys and resulted in Wallops Island being named as one of the top housing areas in the Navy worldwide.
		Active duty military personnel accompanied by dependents and attached for duty at Surface Combat Systems Center are eligible for family housing provided they have at least six (06) months from the date they occupy quarters to the end of their tour of duty at this command.
		Wallops Island is located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, which is a rural area with a limited amount of adequate and affordable civilian rental properties.
	www.scsc.navy.mil /reporting/txt/house.htm (571 words)

	GSFC Press Release W01-30 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Wallops has provided its mobile range capabilities to support sounding rocket and orbital rocket launches at sites that include the Canary Islands, Puerto Rico, Australia, Greenland, Brazil, Peru and even an aircraft carrier off the coast of Ecuador.
		The Wallops mobile range is in action again by supporting the late summer launch of the Lockheed Martin Athena 1 vehicle carrying NASA and Department of Defense satellites.
		For this mission NASA Wallops will be providing an array of tracking equipment and support vans that will be located at Kodiak and the town of Cordova, on the Alaskan mainland just north of Kodiak Island.
	www.gsfc.nasa.gov /news-release/releases/2001/W01-30.htm (441 words)

	NASA - Wallops Island - 60 Years of Exploration
		The purpose of rocket launchings at Wallops became more focused on supporting science experiments of Earth’s atmosphere and space.
		Wallops played a key role in the development of using instruments for use on satellites to measure sea topography.
		Today, the exploration efforts at Wallops are based on its 60 years of experience in conducting research using rockets, scientific balloons and aircraft.
	www.nasa.gov /lb/vision/earth/everydaylife/wallops_60th.html (915 words)

	Quick Look (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The weather observed at WALLOPS ISLAND, VA (KWAL) at 04:54 PM EST was: The skies were cloudy.
		The weather observed at WALLOPS ISLAND, VA (KWAL) at 02:54 PM EST was: The skies were mostly cloudy.
		The weather observed at WALLOPS ISLAND, VA (KWAL) at 03:54 PM EST was: The skies were mostly cloudy.
	www.atmos.albany.edu /cgi/quick.cgi?station=wal&surface=yes&surfaceh=24&surfaced=yes&surfacedh=24&short=yes&zone=yes&state=yes&forediss=yes&avnmos=yes&mrfmos=yes&ngmmos=yes&climo=yes&warn=yes&ski=yes (2940 words)

	Assateague Island Mystery Spill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The spill was declared a federal project and given the name "the Assateague Island Mystery Spill." Industrial Marine Service, Inc., of Norfolk arrived at the scene at approximately 6:45 PM and began cleanup.
		Of particular concern was the possible impact to nesting piping plovers, as this spill hit at the height of the nesting season with active nests on the Hook, Wallops, Assawoman, Metompkin, and Cedar Islands.
		Following intensive monitoring, five of the piping plovers on Assawoman Island were noticed having some amounts of oil on their breasts; four were considered lightly oiled and one moderately oiled.
	www.assateague.org /plover/2-97-d.html (279 words)

	What is Wallops Island? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Wallops Island Field Station is a Marine Science Center which promotes the
		Island, a national park and national wildlife refuge.
		untouched beaches, Wallops Island is an ideal setting to study costal geology.
	members.aol.com /peash921/page2.html (252 words)

	Wallops Island
		On Wallops Island, there are two rocket motor storage facilities -- one for Class 1.1 rocket motor storage and an above-ground storage facility on the north end for the storage of all classes of rocket motors.
		The Wallops launch range includes six launch pads, three blockhouses for launch control and assembly buildings that support the preparation and launching of suborbital and orbital launch systems.
		The launch pads and blockhouses typically are connected by various combinations of multi-pair 12-gauge and/or 16-gauge shielded and twisted pair cables, as well as fiber optic cables.
	www.fas.org /spp/guide/usa/facility/wallops.htm (471 words)

	GPN-2000-001323 - Launch Row
		Located on Virginia's Eastern Shore, the Wallops Island Flight Facility shown in this aerial view began as an auxiliary flight research station associated with the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory in 1945.
		Instead, NASA managers decided to incorporate the facility into the Goddard Space Flight Center because the latter already was closely linked with the facility because Goddard had a sounding rocket division that relied on Wallops for launch, range, tracking and data support.
		In 1982, Wallops Island Station became the Wallops Island Flight Facility managed under the "Suborbital Projects and Operations" directorate at Goddard.
	grin.hq.nasa.gov /ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001323.html (149 words)

	VIRGINIA'S WALLOPS ISLAND SPACEPORT DOWN BUT NOT OUT
		The explosion Monday of a commercial rocket launched from the Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore was a disappointment felt coast to coast, but the failed launch was more a beginning than an end.
		Also, Wallops is the only one of the three bases not controlled by the military, so launches there should involve fewer miles of red tape and shorter waits for launch dates.
		If four to six of the annual East Coast launches were from Wallops Island, roughly 300 good-paying jobs would be created, with $30 million to $60 million in investments by corporations, said Billie Reed, an Old Dominion University assistant professor who is playing a key role in developing the spaceport.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp951027/10270005.htm (791 words)

	Alternate Access to Station from the Virginia Space Flight Center on Wallops Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Wallops is a national asset, and I believe NASA needs to re-focus its attention on this facility"
		Among those reforms are (1) implementation of a risk reduction strategy that ensures viable competition by mid-decade for ISS cargo and crew launch services, and (2) achieving affordable, near-term success in Alternative Access to ISS.
		Further NASA is directed report to the Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate no later than March 1, 2002 on a strategic plan for Wallops future including NASA missions and other business opportunities.
	www.va-spaceflightcenter.org /alternative-access.html (393 words)

	Wallops Island News
		Local news for Wallops Island, VA continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.
		NASA Solicitation: Wallops Island Demolition of Miscellaneous Facilities
		Assateague Island is all about wildlife, and the famous ponies are just the headliners.
	www.topix.net /city/wallops-island-va (627 words)

	ARTICLE: Next stop, space - eventually - at Wallops Island (The Virginian-Pilot - HamptonRoads.com/PilotOnline.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		WALLOPS ISLAND — When Billie Reed looks up at the 113-foot-tall rocket launcher at the tip of Wallops Island, he envisions people flying to the moon from this outpost on the Eastern Shore.
		Both NASA and the Navy still possess facilities on the island, but, beyond the fences, Wallops Island is a nature preserve where endangered piping plovers and bald eagles nest.
		The activity at Wallops and the emerging market for commercial satellites that would one day power cell phones, radio and broadband attracted ODU and the state’s Center for Innovative Technology.
	home.hamptonroads.com /stories/story.cfm?story=92718&ran=247040 (1889 words)

	Current Site Information, NASA Wallops Island, VA Superfund [US EPA Mid-Atlantic Cleanup]
		NASA Wallops Flight Facility is located in Accomac County, Virginia on the Atlantic Coast of the Delmarva peninsula.
		It is located approximately 90 miles north of Norfolk, Virginia and is comprised of three separate land masses - Wallops Main Base, Wallops Mainland, and Wallops Island.
		From 1975 to 1981 the site was the site was known as the Wallops Flight Center, while it was still a launch site for sub-orbital and orbital vehicles, it also began Earth studies of ocean processes and included the Wallops Research Airport, which conducted noise reduction studies of aircraft on runways.
	www.epa.gov /reg3hwmd/npl/VA8800010763.htm (726 words)

	Elevation changes of ice caps in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
		Wallops Flight Facility, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops Island, Virginia, USA
		Precise repeat airborne laser surveys were conducted over the major ice caps in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the spring of 1995 and 2000 in order to measure elevation changes in the region.
		Recent increases in precipitation in the area can account for the slight thickening where it was observed but not for the thinning at lower elevations.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2004/2003JF000045.shtml (514 words)

	Step Into Places Guide Parks Virginia Staunton River - Wallops Island
		It is located on 1,597 acres along the shoreline of the John H. Kerr Reservoir (also known as Buggs Island Lake), as well as the Dan and Staunton rivers.
		This wooded island is a fitting memorial to the outdoorsman, naturalist
		Wallops Island National Wildlife Refuge Fish and Wildlife Service FWS
	www.stepintoplaces.com /Parks/Parks_Virginia_5.htm (421 words)

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		Electronic gear at Wallops Island for handling satellite data and communications communications.
		Wallops Island Command and Data Acquisition (CDA) facility.
		Wallops Island personnel including, left to right: Lloyd Chamberlain, Elwood Harte, Richard Kelly, Norbert Novocin, and Joseph Paranzino.
	www.photolib.noaa.gov /space/spind5.htm (844 words)

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	www.autoextra.com /cars/south/state+va/w/city+wallops-island (333 words)

	FIVE-STORY ROCKET'LL RATTLE AND ROLL 'EM ON WALLOPS ISLAND IN LAUNCH AT DAWN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Conestoga will be the first rocket in 10 years sent into orbit from Wallops, one of just three rocket-launch bases in the continental United States.
		Although Wallops has overseen the flight of 15,000 small research rockets since its founding in 1945, the Conestoga flight will be the first large-scale commercial launch at the Eastern Shore facility.
		Because the Wallops Island launch site is separated from the mainland by some 2 1/2 miles, the rocket's rumble will be most jarring to those closest to the island range.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950728/07280423.htm (504 words)

	Wallops Flight Facility (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The NASA Wallops Flight Facility is celebrating its 60th anniversary with an Open House from 10 a.m.
		Come see exhibits, demonstrations, aircraft displays, and programs on research and other activities.
		For up to date information on closings, launches, and other events affecting the base please call 1-757-824-2050.
	www.wff.nasa.gov (198 words)

	Wallops Island
		Next stop, space - eventually - at Wallops Island.
		Washington Officials Consider Wallops Island, Va., for Spaceport.
		Spaceport at Wallops Island, Va., wins $49 million contract with Air Force.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/us/A0921747.html (189 words)

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