Getting an up-close view of the NG-11 rocket launch and a behind the scenes tour of NASA's Wallop Island base. From building rockets to flying them!
Thanks to the NASA Social program I was selected to be 1 of 30 lucky social media influencers to get up close and personal with some rockets. A special look on what goes on the days before an orbital rocket launch and a complete tour of the grounds.
Wallops Island is a small nature preserve on the east coast of Virginia that just happens to have a NASA base. It used to be a Navy base but it was commissioned to NASA some years ago. It is a part of the NASA Goddard Flight Center which is where much of the science going up in this launch was developed.
I got to see where they manufacture sounding rockets, the control centers, and where they assembled the Northrup Grumman Antares Rockets for the Cygnus spacecraft! This mission was a resupply mission for the International Space Station. Half of the 7600 payload was science and new experiments. This included 3 new robots.
Check out the video it was a great time. I shall be attending more launches so let me.know what you would like to see next time!
Submitted April 28, 2019 at 07:44AM by jerflash http://bit.ly/2PC6d4Q
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