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NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility commemorated the start of construction of its new Wallops Island causeway bridge during a groundbreaking ceremony at 10 a.m., Monday, April 14, 2025, on the island.

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Director David Pierce, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Associate Center Director Ray Rubilotta, and Virginia Sen. Bill DeSteph attended the ceremony. (Photo Credit: NASA/Danielle Johnson)

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NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility commemorated the start of construction of its new Wallops Island causeway bridge during a groundbreaking ceremony at 10 a.m., Monday, April 14, 2025, on the island.

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Director David Pierce, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Associate Center Director Ray Rubilotta, and Virginia Sen. Bill DeSteph attended the ceremony. (Photo Credit: NASA/Danielle Johnson)

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NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility commemorated the start of construction of its new Wallops Island causeway bridge during a groundbreaking ceremony at 10 a.m., Monday, April 14, 2025, on the island.

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Director David Pierce, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Associate Center Director Ray Rubilotta, and Virginia Sen. Bill DeSteph attended the ceremony. (Photo Credit: NASA/Danielle Johnson)

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NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility commemorated the start of construction of its new Wallops Island causeway bridge during a groundbreaking ceremony at 10 a.m., Monday, April 14, 2025, on the island.

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Director David Pierce, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Associate Center Director Ray Rubilotta, and Virginia Sen. Bill DeSteph attended the ceremony.

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NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility commemorated the start of construction of its new Wallops Island causeway bridge during a groundbreaking ceremony at 10 a.m., Monday, April 14, 2025, on the island.

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Director David Pierce, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Associate Center Director Ray Rubilotta, and Virginia Sen. Bill DeSteph attended the ceremony. (Photo Credit: NASA/Danielle Johnson)

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Rocket Labs Haste-3 Mission from LC-2 at the Mid-atlantic Spaceport.

Technician Durwood Dereng measures elevation of double Deacon booster prior to launch of RM-10 research model at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, February 6, 1951.

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Image Number: L-69519
Date: February 6, 1951

Sam, the Rhesus monkey, after his ride in the Little Joe-2 (LJ-2) spacecraft. A U.S. Navy destroyer safely recovered Sam after he experienced three minutes of weightlessness during the flight. Animals were often used during test flights for Project Mercury to help determine the effects of spaceflight and weightlessness on humans. LJ-2 was one in a series of flights that led up to the human orbital flights of NASA's Project Mercury program. The Little Joe rocket booster was developed as a cheaper, smaller, and more functional alternative to the Redstone rockets. Little Joe could be produced at one-fifth the cost of Redstone rockets and still have enough power to carry a capsule payload. Seven unmanned Little Joe rockets were launched from Wallops Island, Virginia from August 1959 to April 1961.

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Image Number: S63-19199
Date: December 4, 1959

It's not a big rocket but it's headed away from Wallops Island into space.

It's not a big rocket but it's headed away from Wallops Island into space.

We came out to Wallops Island beffore sunrise to watch a rocket launch

A Black Brandt rocket on display at Wallops Flight Facility

It's not a big rocket but it's headed away from Wallops Island into space.

The launchpad at Wallop's Island has seen many rockets sent to space

A Navy E-2D Hawkeye flies over Wallops Island

Passing NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on the way to Chincoteague

A Navy E-2D Hawkeye flies over Wallops Island

The many satellite dishes of the NOAA Wallops Station are just up the road

Passing NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on the way to Chincoteague

Description: Launching of the LJ6 Little Joe on October 4, 1959 took place at Wallops Island, Virginia. This was the first attempt to launch an instrumented capsule with a Little Joe booster. Only the LJ1A and the LJ6 used the space metal/chevron plates as heat reflector shields, as they kept shattering. Photograph published in Winds of Change, 75th Anniversary NASA publication, page 77, by James Schultz **note - see L60-104 page 77 also.

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Image Number: EL-1996-00068
Date: October 4, 1959