{"id":27211,"date":"2016-06-26T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T18:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/virginia-looks-at-new-opportunities-for-wallops-spaceport"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:54:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:54:52","slug":"virginia-looks-at-new-opportunities-for-wallops-spaceport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/virginia-looks-at-new-opportunities-for-wallops-spaceport","title":{"rendered":"Virginia looks at new opportunities for Wallops spaceport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virginia-looks-at-new-opportunities-for-wallops-spaceport.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WALLOPS ISLAND \u2014 With space station resupply launches expected to resume in August and a runway under construction for testing drone flights, Virginia is looking at another opportunity to lure a major federal research program to the state\u2019s expanding spaceport complex on this Eastern Shore barrier island.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is expected to begin looking for a place to base a new \u201cscience and technology testing ground\u201d for unmanned vehicle systems \u2014 operating in the air and underwater \u2014 and boosters say the regional spaceport would be an ideal fit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat better place to do it than here?\u201d said Peter Bale, chairman of the Wallops Island Regional Alliance, as members of the House Appropriations Committee visited last week.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roanoke.com\/news\/virginia\/virginia-looks-at-new-opportunities-for-wallops-spaceport\/article_73cb561c-194c-5218-9cf2-1384d52a6886.html\">http:\/\/www.roanoke.com\/news\/virginia\/virginia-looks-at-new-o...a6886.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WALLOPS ISLAND \u2014 With space station resupply launches expected to resume in August and a runway under construction for testing drone flights, Virginia is looking at another opportunity to lure a major federal research program to the state\u2019s expanding spaceport complex on this Eastern Shore barrier island. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is expected [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6,1492,8,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai","category-security","category-space","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67090,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27211\/revisions\/67090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}