This is NASA's Wallops Flight Facility FriendsofNASA.org: From sounding rockets to high altitude balloons to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), there is no place quite like NASA's Wallops Flight Facility (WFF). Wallops Flight Facility is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and approximately 100 miles (160 km) north-northeast of Norfolk. The facility is operated by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt