The NASA Wallops Visitor Center is the place to explore the past, present, and future of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. The Visitor Center offers many great exhibits as testimony to the amazing things done at Wallops in addition to serving as a prime viewing location for rocket launches! The Visitor Center is located on VA RT 175 near Chincoteague Island, Virginia and is the perfect stop for your next Eastern Shore trip. Admission is free - stop by today!
Recent Reviews
NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center
What a great stop along our way. We spent several hours at Wallops Visitor Center and found the displays informative and the staff friendly and helpful. We enjoyed the videos and wished there were more! They did a great job explaining the work being done on the base.
Rosie
1743857043
5
5
NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center
NASA Wallops Flight Facility offers an interesting, albeit dated, visitor experience that provides a valuable look into the important work done here.
The visitor center and its small museum are quite informative, detailing the various projects and missions undertaken at Wallops. While some of the exhibits show their age, the content itself is engaging and sheds light on the significant contributions this facility makes to space exploration and scientific research. It's clear a lot of fascinating work happens behind the scenes here.
The undeniable highlight, which we unfortunately didn't get to experience, is the opportunity to witness a rocket launch. I can only imagine the thrill of seeing one of these events firsthand, and it's certainly a compelling reason to plan a visit around a launch schedule if possible.
My main hope for the future is to see some investment in updating the museum's facilities. A refresh of the exhibits would undoubtedly enhance the visitor experience and better showcase the incredible advancements happening at Wallops.
Despite the dated aesthetic, NASA Wallops is well worth a visit for anyone interested in space, aviation, and the vital role this facility plays. Keep an eye on their launch schedule – that's where the real magic happens!
The visitor center and its small museum are quite informative, detailing the various projects and missions undertaken at Wallops. While some of the exhibits show their age, the content itself is engaging and sheds light on the significant contributions this facility makes to space exploration and scientific research. It's clear a lot of fascinating work happens behind the scenes here.
The undeniable highlight, which we unfortunately didn't get to experience, is the opportunity to witness a rocket launch. I can only imagine the thrill of seeing one of these events firsthand, and it's certainly a compelling reason to plan a visit around a launch schedule if possible.
My main hope for the future is to see some investment in updating the museum's facilities. A refresh of the exhibits would undoubtedly enhance the visitor experience and better showcase the incredible advancements happening at Wallops.
Despite the dated aesthetic, NASA Wallops is well worth a visit for anyone interested in space, aviation, and the vital role this facility plays. Keep an eye on their launch schedule – that's where the real magic happens!
Michael Johnson (ahze)
1751833617
4
5
NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center
Fantastic experience. The facility looks small, but when you enter inside, it is big, with different allocated areas for wealth of information and interactive areas for different activities. Fascinating, I could spent an entire day there. NASA should get more funding for the kind of work the agency does, Amazing!! It's free admission, open Saturdays.
Louisa Melendez
1729434955
5
5
NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center
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