WALLOPS ISLAND -- Residents and visitors to the area will be treated to what should be a spectacular sight next week when NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility sends up the largest rocket ever launched at the facility.
In cooperation with its private-sector commercial partner Orbital Sciences, NASA is scheduled to launch an Antares rocket from its Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, just south of Assateague Island, on April 17 with a launch window open until April 19. The Antares, which is 133 feet tall and about 13 feet in diameter is the largest rocket ever launched from Wallops in its nearly 70-year history.
Small to medium-size rocket launches from Wallops several times a year are often visible in and around the resort area and across Worcester County and the Lower Shore, but the Antares launch is unique and should be visible across a much larger area, according to Wallops spokesman Keith Koehler this week.
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6 comments:
Can we load the Pt Mayor on it and paint it PINK.
No, put Jonathan Taylor on top of it and launch him to the MOON.
Not pink that gives pink a bad name..maybe lavender.
Headed north. Not Alaska maybe north to korea.
FatBoy couldn't go on it ,It wouldn't be able to take OFF???
Even if you could cram his lard *ss in there we sure wouldn't want to litter in space. Can you imagine if another life form came in contact with him? It would be an embarrassment to the earth. Don't even joke about this!
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