Today we went to Wallops Island. The Nasa Visitor Centr is well worth a stop, we took abougt 2 hours go to through. We found it very fascinating how busy Wallops is. They have about 200 varying size launches each year at this location. There is also additional locations around the world. Most of the launches are for research in government and in academia. Wallops can build and send up a rocket in the 2-4 week time frame, these are sat is to go to the space station with supplies.
What fascinated us were the balloons. We all know about weather balloons but they now have rsearch balloons that go up to 130,000 feet high and can stay up for 100 days sending data back. Awesome!!!!
The Wallops website is https://www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/home if you are interested in additional information.
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