NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Wallops Flight Facility, located on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Wallops is now NASA’s principal facility for management and implementation of suborbital research programs. Captions and Photo source: NASA
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One of Delmarva’s real gems — Wallops Island and the rapidly growing NASA flight facility that is located there — is taking steps to ensure its costly and critical infrastructure isn’t inundated by a rising sea level.
NASA is well aware of the threat posed by rising sea level. With $9 million of construction in progress and a complex of buildings, launch pads and more, it can’t afford not to be proactive about a projected 2-foot rise in sea level by 2060…
