NASA is accepting applications from students at U.S. colleges and universities who want to send their experiments to the edge of space on a high-flying scientific balloon.
Operation Ice Bridge is a six-year campaign of annual flights to each of Earth's polar regions.
NASA has selected nine scientific teams to work on future high-altitude balloon and sounding rocket payloads. The selected proposals address a wide range of astrophysical mysteries from dark matter and cosmic-ray antiprotons to studies of galaxy clusters and supernova remnants.
A rocket experiment that may shed light on the highest clouds in the Earth’s atmosphere was conducted from Wallops Flight Facility on Sept. 19, 2009.
A successful NASA flight test Monday demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as it enters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds.
The Max Launch Abort System was successfully tested in a simulated pad abort test at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.
There are no launches currently scheduled through November from Wallops Island.
For further information about Wallops Flight Facility and its missions, please call 757-824-2050.