Article: Spaceport at Wallops Island, Va., wins $49 million contract with Air Force.

By Allison Connolly, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 6--The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island has won a $49 million contract to launch satellites and space craft for the Air Force over the next five years.

The award is the largest ever received by the spaceport on the Eastern Shore, which is operated by a consortium including Old Dominion University, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the states of Maryland and Virginia.

The Air Force Space and Missiles Systems Center Detachment 12, located at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M., will launch a series ...

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