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Wallops Island
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NASA's Wallops Flight Facility Visitors Center fires the imagination with full-scale rockets, films on space and aeronautics, and displays on NASA projects. Although this was the site of early rocket launchings and NASA occasionally sends up satellites here, the facility now focuses primarily on atmospheric research.
- Address: Rte. 175, 20 mi southwest of Chincoteague, Chincoteague, VA, 23336
- Phone: 757/824-2298; 757/824-1344
- Cost: Free
- Hours: July and Aug., daily 10--4; Sept.--Nov. and Feb.--June, Thurs.--Mon. 10--4
- Website: www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/home/index.html
- Location: Chincoteague
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