Wallops Island News

Under the GTE program, DACOM participated in the three field missions of CITE 1 , a project involving the intercomparison of trace gas measurement techniques.

EMERALD ISLE, N.C. -- Mr. and Mrs. Warren Christian Holland of Wallops Island announce the marriage of their daughter, Tatum Christian, to Michael Stephen Riedel.

Delegate Lynwood W. Lewis spoke at the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program Christmas Luncheon at the Elks Club of Accomac on Dec.

Part of Weidmana s job as a NASA software engineering intern allowed her to simulate and help review plans for upcoming launches.

WALLOPS ISLAND --The Marine Science Consortium, a residential environmental learning center located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, recently received a VanGO vehicle donated by Millersville University of Pennsylvania.

Onancock officials are in the process of reviewing an analysis of the town's water and sewer rates that they commissioned in July from Salisbury, Md.

The Eastern Shore of Virginia will see the light by the end of the year -- that's when the long-awaited, $6 million fiber backbone that is the core of the local broadband Internet project is scheduled to be turned on.

PARKSLEY -- Word that Chincoteague plans to seek a boundary adjustment for parts of the mainland, including Wallops Island, resulted in a crowd of more than 70 attendees at Accomack County Supervisor Ron Wolff's constituents' meeting, where the expansion of municipal limits was the announced topic.

CHINCOTEAGUE - Traffic will be completely stopped on the Chincoteague Causeway Monday night into Tuesday, with periodic openings and long delays expected, as work continues on the bridge.

The Wallops Island Chief Petty Officers Association is proud to announce our second annual Victory Dance! If you are a Veteran a ' of any branch of service a ' please join us for an evening of fine dining, festive atmosphere, and most importantly a rekindling of the heritage you belong to.

Republican Bob McDonnell heads toward Election Day with a lead over Democrat Creigh Deeds .

The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command recently demonstrated autonomous operations by multiple "swarms" of unmanned air and ground vehicles, unattended ground sensors, video cameras and other devices linked together in an intelligent network powered by EdgeFrontier platform technologies from Augusta Systems, Inc.

Politics are becoming more volatile then ever. Many Americans go to the voting booths uninformed of many of their candidate's views on issues.

CHINCOTEAGUE -- Delegate Lynwood Lewis had breakfast Saturday morning with about two dozen supporters at the Waterside Inn.

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NASA recently launched its Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment, a subscale version of an inflatable heat shield or aeroshell, atop a Black Brant 9 rocket from its launching pad on Wallops Island, Va.

Of all the strange ideas I've heard, this tops the list. The amount of catalogued space debris within our planet's orbit increased by nearly 50% since 2007, so DARPA wants to gather ideas for how to clear space junk from Earth's orbit.

U.S. Rep. Glenn Nye wants to improve the relationship between federal laboratories and small businesses.

James Hollopeter of GIT Satellite has a plan for getting rid of orbiting junk . He wants to launch rocket-loads of water into space to create a liquid wall for debris to slam into, so the pieces can slow down and eventually drop out of orbit.

For the second consecutive year, motorcycles and riders involved with the Delmarva Bike Week made their way to Chincoteague Island.