NASA's Wallops Flight Facility is NASA's only owned and operated launch range. Located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Verification: nasa.gov/socialmedia
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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.
ALT A Katalyst Space engineer runs tests on their LINK spacecraft while it is inside the Pegasus XL rocket attached to the Stargazer aircraft at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. A large white airplane has a white rocket attached to the bottom of its fuselage. There is a small white popup tent covering a section of the rocket, and a person in a red ball cap and blue electrostatic discharge jacket sits in front of it. The rocket has several logos on the side and an American flag painted near the tail. The airplane has a long blue stripe running down the side, under the windows and above the wing. Blue letters spell out “Northrop Grumman” above the windows to the right of the open forward boarding door. Several support trucks and other vehicles are visible in the background. The sky is partly cloudy. This image is watermarked with “Credit: NASA/Ron Beard.”
ALT Katalyst Space engineers stabilize their LINK robotic servicing spacecraft as it moves into a vibration chamber at NASA Goddard on April 15, 2026. Two people in white clean suits and hair and beard nets stand in the center of this photograph. They each have a gloved hand on the bottom of a silver spacecraft. The spacecraft is suspended from a frame and is being moved into a large chamber by a crane that is out of view. Two more people on the right and left edges of the photo look on. Another person, also in a clean suit and wearing a black helmet, stands next to a railing and holds a crane operator box. The chamber is lit from below. The image is watermarked “Credit: NASA/Scott Wiessinger.”