93K views · 2.6K reactions | LIFTOFF! Northrop Grumman Corporation's CRS-11 mission successfully launched from Pad 0A in Virginia at 4:46 p.m. The Cygnus cargo spacecraft successfully deployed and is on its way to the International Space Station. | NASA's Wallops Flight Facility | Facebook

9.1K views · 355 reactions | Today is our launchiversary! 73 years ago today, the first test rocket launched from Wallops Island. Wallops Flight Facility has continued to explore and innovate launch technologies ever since! Take a look back at some of our launches throughout Wallops history. | NASA's Wallops Flight Facility | Facebook

Here's a video of the three launches this morning from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. Video courtesy of Patrick Black. Photos coming up. | NASA's Wallops Flight Facility

Another successful rocket launch at NASA Wallops | NASA's Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Successfully Conducts Wallops Rocket Launch with Technology Experiments NASA successfully launched a NASA Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket carrying two space technology demonstration projects at 6:15 a.m. today. The rocket carried the SOAREX-8 Exo-Brake Flight Test from NASA’s Ames Research Center in California and the Radial Core Heat Spreader from NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio. Preliminary analysis shows that data was received on both projects. The payload flew to an altit

"[The flight director] looked at me and shook his head, and I knew they were gone." Gerald Griffin talked to American History TV about what it was like in Mission Control on the day Challenger was lost. This Saturday at 4:30 PM ET on C-SPAN 2, former NASA flight director Gerald Griffin discusses his career in the American space program. He talks about directing Apollo missions along with overseeing the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. | American History TV

8.4K views · 171 reactions | Wallops Flight Facility is so much more than a place to launch rockets. Catch a glimpse of the different science and engineering missions we have going on all around the world! | NASA's Wallops Flight Facility | Facebook