NASA is kicking off a formal environmental assessment of its facilities on Wallops Island, Virginia, to increase the number of authorized rocket launches at the site by almost 200%, according to ...

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (WAVY) — Mission accomplished! NASA successfully launched three Black Brant IX sounding rockets from its Wallops Flight Facility as part of the Atmospheric Perturbations around the ...

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — Monday's solar eclipse presented a rare opportunity for NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore. A team at Virginia's Wallops Island sent three sounding rockets into ...

WALLOPS ISLAND, VA — Countdowns are not unusual on Wallops Island. Still, the crowd gathered at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Monday counted down to the ceremonial groundbreaking of a new causeway ...

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. - It's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's a rocket blasting off during a super-rare solar eclipse. On Monday, April 8, NASA plans to launch three sounding rockets into the Earth's ...

Several scientific and research efforts tied to NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore are at risk, following President Trump's new budget proposal aiming to cut roughly a quarter ...

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va., April 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — An Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket was successfully launched at 2:48 a.m. EDT today from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Va. The four-stage rocket ...

The NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center on the Eastern Shore could soon close to the public, according to federal workers who are fighting the closure. The move comes after employees received ...