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Wallops 70Th Anniversary Wallops 70th Anniversary | 1 For more information on today’s events, check out the our TABLE OF CONTENTS phone app by scanning this QR code on the map on 3 | From the Director 10 | 1960s page 4 or visiting 4 | Map of Wallops 11 | 1970s http://goo.gl/ uTUiXP (URL is case 5 | Schedule of Events 12 | 1980s sensitive) 6 | Wallops Before the Rockets 13 | 1990s 7 | On Station: The Navy 14 | 2000s 8 | 1940s 15 | Wallops Today 9 | 1950s CONNECT WITH WALLOPS www.facebook.com/NASAWFF www.twitter.com/nasa_wallops www.nasa.gov/wallops WATCH A LAUNCH Launch viewing: View rocket launches at the NASA Wallops Visitor’s Center on Route 175 on the way to Chincoteague Island www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-wallops-visitor-center-launch-viewing Wallops Information Line: Call 757-824-2050 for launch and project status recording UStream: Can’t make it the Wallops Island area? Watch from home on our UStream channel at www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-wallops 2 | Wallops 70th Anniversary From the Director On behalf of NASA and all of our mission partners, welcome to Wallops Flight Facility! Today, June 27, 2015, marks exactly 70 years since our first launch, and we are thrilled to host you at our Open House in celebration of this milestone. The history of NASA at Wallops dates back to the mid-1940’s and the early work of NASA’s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, or NACA. In need of a launch range to test developmental missile guidance and propulsion systems, the NACA started looking for a location with clear, unpopulated space down range with areas for radar tracking stations. In addition, officials sought an isolated area for safety and security considerations, and proximity to a military airfield was deemed a must. Initially considered too remote, officials eventually chose the Wallops Island location. In April 1945, Congress appropriated funds for the research station at Wallops, and June 27, 1945, the facility conducted its first launch. Since then, the men and women of Wallops have launched literally thousands of rockets, hundreds of scientific balloons, and have logged thousands of flight hours in support of scientific investigations around the world. Today, Wallops leads NASA’s suborbital programs: airborne science, scientific ballooning, and sounding rockets. Furthermore, Wallops is home to NASA’s only owned and operated launch range, one of only four ranges in our nation where payloads can be launched into orbit. In addition, we have an incredible science team here, an extremely talented, multi-disciplinary engineering group, a diligent environmental section, and a whole host of mission support personnel working in a wide range of fields. The diversity of our mission set here is complemented by our partnerships with the U.S. Navy, NOAA, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, and the Eastern Shore community as a whole. In the true spirit of NASA, thank you for taking the time to explore our facility today — I hope it will lead to new discoveries! 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Meyer “Wallops Flight Facility History” NASA Wallops is doing big things in Earth Science. Come hear Explore the Wallops Island/Chincoteague role in the U.S. history; from about satellite missions, airborne research, and hurricane sentinels! Early Settlement and Revolution-era Forts, to the need for the U.S. From measuring rainfall on Delmarva to ice melt in Antarctica, NASA Navy and the growth of NASA. Wallops is on top of it! Noon-12:30 p.m. Richard Paul “We Would Not Fail” 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m. Nathan Riolo, Award-winning public radio documentary producer Richard Paul will Christian Billie, Alex Seo “Programming 101” E-104, Room appear to talk about the new book he co-wrote with Steven Moss, 308 “We Could Not Fail”. The book tells an inspiring, largely unknown Learn about using of programming in the real world applications. story of how the space program served as a launching pad for a more Learn how to write basic code using the Python programming integrated America. It profiles ten pioneer African-Americans space language. Are you are up for more? Take the 10 levels of code workers, including technicians, mathematicians, engineers and an challenges. Still more? The ultimate challenge is here for you to astronaut candidate. “Surprising and insightful,” says Laura Helmuth, solve the 70 Sudoku puzzles programmatically with the fastest time. New York Times Sunday book review. Prizes will be distributed to the achievers. Anyone with or without 12:30-1 p.m. Phil Eberspeaker “The Fun-Damentals of the experience in programming are welcomed. All children under the age Physics of Phlight” of 13 must be accompanied by an adult. This activity is located in the Building E-104, room 308. The “Fun-Damentals of the Physics of Phlight” will explore the basic physics of how balloons, airplanes, and sounding rockets work. The Aircraft on Static Display 30-minute program is chock full of interesting demonstrations to help NASA Wallops aircraft at N-159 Hangar U.S. Navy aircraft at the D-1 Hangar explain the concepts. Balloons will be flying, planes will be gliding, C-130 Hercules E-2 Hawkeye and who knows what might be shooting across the stage. As an C-23 Sherpa C-2 Greyhound added bonus, many of the demonstrations can recreated at home. B-200 and more! Come in out of the heat and enjoy the fun, and maybe learn a little UH-1 Huey bit of the interesting physics that helps Wallops achieve NASA’s T-34 scientific goals. And more! 1-1:30 p.m. Jay Pittman “My Aerospace Career and What it Takes to Work at Wallops” U.S. Coast Guard aircraft at the D-1 Hangar Come hear about Wallops Deputy Director for Strategy and Scientific Balloon Static Display, on road from F-7 to F-6 Integration Jay Pittman’s career path! Mr. Pittman had several paths that led him to his current position and will discuss that, along with Wallops’ scientific balloons are as large as a football stadium! what it takes to work at Wallops. How does everyone work together? 1:30-2 p.m. Costen Gladding “Memories from a NACA/NASA Robotics Demonstration, D-1 Hangar Career” Entertainment on E-100 main stage area Herbert C. Gladding (Costen) of Pocomoke City is a retired U.S. Navy Brass Band Voices of Wallops Electronics Technician/Field Engineer (originally with NAOTS, then Three Sheets Wallops Music Club NACA and NASA, and eventually retired from NOAA) discusses his Neil and Jessie Heroes for Sale work and life during times of the birth and early growth of Wallops Flight Facility up to 1968 when he transferred to NOAA. Mission Area Tours: 2-2:30 p.m. Jim Mason-Foley “Launch Range Photography” Range Control Center (Building E-106) Meet at the staging area outside The Optical Systems Group presents “Launch Range Photography” Building E-106 to discuss how to capture near-impossible imagery.
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