U.S. Senator Tom Carper, Delaware, visited Wallops Flight Facility August 4, 2014.
U.S. Senator Tom Carper, Delaware, checks out a 1:20 scale model of the Exa Volt Antenna (EVA) project during a tour of the Balloon Program Office at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility August 4, 2014. EVA is designed to fit inside a superpressure balloon and will be used to detect neutrinos, small “ghost” particles that have little or no mass, during the next Antarctica campaign for balloons. While here, the senator also visited the Wallops range control center, Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A, and the Horizontal Integration Facility, where Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket is undergoing processing for its next commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station, scheduled for mid-October 2014.