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Items associated with name 'Wallops Island (Va.)'
Cold War Era Publications
by Various (1961 – 1977)
1 box (0.25 linear feet)
This collection contains several newspaper issues and publications related to Cold War events and their effects in the Delmarva and Mid Atlantic region. Included are a Time-Life publication about setting up the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair, an Office of Civil Defense publication on "Family Shelter Designs," Baltimore Sun issues from 1962 special on "Inside a Titan Missile Base" and "Eastern Shore Space Shot," Philadelphia Inquirer issues from 1961 on the "Crisis in Berlin" and "Rockets and Space," and a Baltimore Sun issue from 1977 about the "Winter of 1977."
NASA Wallops Flight Center collection
by Unknown (1976 – 1998)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
The NASA Wallops Flight Center collection contains material on Wallops Flight Facility, the NASA Eastern Shore facility on Wallops Island. Items included are a NASA Visitor Center brochure, a NASA On-Line Educational Resources hand-out, Information Summaries newsletter, photographs of a Black Brant XII Sounding Rocket, and a Scientific Balloon and a booklet titled Wallops and the War for Independence. In addition, there is a booklet about the Chincoteague Toll Road and Bridge Company.