Saturday, December 16, 2006

Virginia's Space Port at Wallops Island

At Wallops Island on the Virginia Eastern shore, at 0700 EST this morning, the first successful rocket launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Space Port took place.  "Rocket soars into space from Wallops Island before dawn"  This successful launch represents the birth of the space launch industry in Virginia and hopefully another future commercial space port. . What's cool about this is that I live a few hours drive away from Wallops Island so if launches from there become more common place, I will be able watch a few in the future!  Mid-Atlantic commercial spaceport makes 1st launch