NASA's Wallops Flight Facility is NASA's only owned and operated launch range. Located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Verification: https://xitter.cf/t.co/8x9gorB3LK
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ALT A rocket rises at night above a burst of bright orange exhaust and smoke, lighting up a dense forest of spruce and birch trees. The rocket’s thin trail climbs toward a black sky.
ALT A nighttime sky shows a bright rocket plume forming a large glowing halo with a wispy, swirling cloud above it, resembling a jellyfish shape. A small bright point marks the rocket high in the sky, leaving a narrow illuminated trail.
ALT A nighttime sky shows a bright rocket plume forming a large glowing halo with a wispy, swirling cloud above it, resembling a jellyfish shape. A small bright point marks the rocket high in the sky, leaving a narrow illuminated trail.
ALT A nighttime sky shows a bright rocket plume forming a large glowing halo with a wispy, swirling cloud above it, resembling a jellyfish shape. A small bright point marks the rocket high in the sky, leaving a narrow illuminated trail.
ALT Kennedy Center Director Brian Hughes stands at a podium in front of a presentation that says "Industry Day. Launch Capacity and Payload Processing. Requests for Information for Wallops Flight Facility. Assigned to Kennedy Space Center." with an aerial view of Wallops Island.
ALT Aerial view of the coastal launch range of Wallops Flight Facility, showing a blue Atlantic Ocean on the right; white buildings along a tan coastline back up to a green, marshy landscape. (Photo Credit: Courtesy Patrick J. Hendrickson; used with permission)
ALT A white rocket launches with a plume of smoke and fire underneath. Next to it is a tall structure that is used to protect the rocket before launch. The camera is angled up at the rocket from the ground, making the plume of smoke appear taller than the rocket. In front of the smoke in the top left corner is a small silhouette of a frog with all four limbs spread out like a starfish.
ALT Aerial view of a high-altitude scientific balloon launch preparation in a desert setting at sunset. The white balloon is partially inflated and tethered to a launch vehicle, with support vehicles and personnel positioned around the launch area on a cracked desert surface (NASA/Frank Reddy)
ALT Against a black background, the total solar eclipse. It is a black circle surrounded by white, wispy streams of light that flow away from the black circle in every direction.
ALT An image looking up at the night sky. In the foreground are boulders and coniferous type trees, shaded dark by the exposure of the image. In the background is a dark gray and black sky, speckles with hundreds of tiny white dots, stars. Streaking outward across the sky are lines of light, mostly green and orange in color—the meteors of Perseids.
ALT Thumbnail for the 2026 Goddard Summer Film Festival. Boxes of different sizes feature antique pictures of Robert Goddard and his work. One large photo of him on the right includes an old film camera. Some of the boxes are colored red and blue, as is a vintage film wheel. A rocket is turned on its side in the upper right.
ALT A scientific balloon launching against a blue sky with clouds.