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The Sherando Times
Stephens City • Middletown • Kernstown
March 30 – April 5, 2011Volume III, Issue 13
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Va. Del. Chris Jones released the Republican plan or redistricting o the 100 Houseo Delegates districts close to press time. Del. Clay Athey’s district 18 has been splitinto at least three pieces. See story on Del. Athey’s political retirement on page 6.
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March 30 – April 5, 011 • Te Sherando imes • Page 3Read all issues in their entirety FREE on www.Sherandoimes.comBy Alissa SmithVirginia Statehouse NewsRICHMOND — Virginians whowant to see a spacecrat take o into the wild blue yonder will nolonger need to travel to Florida’sCape Canaveral to see the event.A spaceport on Virginia’s East-ern Shore may now become theonly spaceport in the UnitedStates to send crats up to the In-ternational Space Station ater theshuttle Endeavor takes o on thelast ight rom Florida in April.he spaceport, oicially theWallops Flight Facility, is ownedby NASA. However the Mid-At-lantic Regional Spaceport leasesthe land and runs the generaloperations o space ights.Te acility was established in1945 as a research center. It isnow NASA’s primary suborbitalresearch acility, and it provideslaunch acilities to commercial,governmental and scientic enti-ties, according to Wallops’ web-site.In late May, Wallops will belaunching a satellite or the AirForce that will provide soldiersand commanders with a more e-ective global-positioning satellitesystem. Instead o simply usingmap points, the satellite will pro-vide inormation on where certainminerals or chemical compoundsare in the immediate area.Laurie Naismith, director o Government and Public Aairsor the Virginia CommercialSpace Flight Authority, said thatshe hopes the launches will drivevisitors to Virginia as they do inFlorida.Naismith is working with hos-pitality, tourism and economicdevelopment specialists on theEastern Shore to help take advan-tage o the novelty that a spacelaunch brings to a region.“Te umbrella theme has be-come “America’s rst Space Coast”because this is where the nation’sspace program was started 65years ago,” said Naismith.She said that NASA sent mon-keys into space rom Wallops aspart o its research to determinei humans could survive in space.Delegate John Cosgrove, R-Chesapeake, chairman o theVirginia Aerospace Advisory Council, said that with the lastederally unded shuttle launchrom Cape Canaveral planned orApril, the Wallops spaceport willbecome the next place to launchrockets.“When these aurus II rocketstake o — these things are 130eet tall, they’re 13 stories high— they make a big boom whenthey take o,” said Cosgrove. “It’snot going to be a show as big as ashuttle, but it’s going to be pretty spectacular, and it’s going to be alot o noise.”he aurus II rocket will betaking ood and necessities to theInternational Space Station. Nai-smith said that eventually it will beused to send a multitude o items,such as scientic projects, intospace and not just to the ISS.
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Te event may be spectacular,but Donna Bozza, director o Eastern Shore o Virginia our-ism Corp., has to nd a way toincorporate the space age with thebrand o eco-tourism her groupwants to promote.“However this comes o, itneeds to t in with our brand, andhowever we do it, it will be uniqueto this region,” said Bozza. “Whenyou come here or the launch youwill be experiencing the authenticEastern Shore experience alongside o the uturistic space ageevent.”She said the Eastern Shore isn’tgoing to become a Disney Worldbecause they want to continuewith eco-tourism that showcasesthe rural habitats surrounding thespaceport.“We have a really unique way o doing this. We could say thatwe’ll be the Cape Canaveral o thenorth, but really we won’t,” saidBozza.However, she said that the areahas seen a signicant increase intourism dollars when an event oractivity takes place at Wallops.Accomack County Administra-tor Stephen Miner said that as awhole, the county is very excitedor this new phase o rocketry atWallops Island.“here are likely to be someproblems, like traic, rom theexpansion o the tourism. Tis isnot to mean that we see this as anegative. Tere is quite the ex-pectation or it being a very goodthing or the shore,” said Miner.He said that a lot o peoplearound the state are trying tomake space tourism as successulas possible.he Chincoteague NationalWildlie Reuge, which is hometo the amed Chincoteague wildponies, is excited about its work-ing relationship with NASA atWallops Island.Lou Hinds, the reuge man-ager at Chincoteague, said that hispolicy regarding tourism or thelaunches is to open up the park-ing lots at the reuge or people tocome and view the launch.“We can aord the Americanpublic the opportunity to view the launch at a reasonable saedistance but with a spectacularview,” said Hinds.Lynne Lochen, tourism special-ist at the Virginia ourism Corp.,said that the Wallops tourismprogram is in the early stages o development. But, she said shehope to capitalize on the ascina-tion with space travel.“It doesn’t have to be Florida,”said Lochen. “We can changethe mentality and get people justas excited to come here becausethere has always been an interestin what is going on at Wallops.”
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