Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe predicted the Wallops Island region will become the aerospace capital of the globe.
He was speaking at a ground breaking ceremony for $8 million improvements at Wallops Research Park next the flight facility that is currently involved in resupply shipments to the International Space Station.
The Salisbury Daily Times reports that the research center improvements include a 1-thousand-foot taxiway that will connect the 200-acre park to the runways at the NASA Flight Facility.
McAuliffe will return to the Eastern Shore in July for the launch of the second commercial resupply mission to the space station.
Serious development of the research park began in 2006 after a water and sewer study was completed and a planning agreement was completed between NASA and the Chincoteague Bay Field Station and Accomack County.
