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Posted 22 August 2011 - 07:34 AM

Cape Canaveral has moved to Virgina?


Well ok, not really. But NASA is launching rockets from The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on the Virgina coast south of Ocean City near Chincoteague at Wallops Island.


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Video footage of a Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital rocket successfully launched at 7:16 a.m. on June 10th 2011.


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Launch Trajectory from Wallops Island to ISS
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Posted 22 August 2011 - 02:56 PM

Great post. I wonder why develop something that is already made and currently idle in Florida?
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