Milestone Take off: First NASA Wallops-Controlled Global Hawk Flight (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Milestone Take off: First NASA Wallops-Controlled Global Hawk Flight

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NASA's Global Hawk 872 known as GH872 departed from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., at 8:41 a.m. on Aug. 20, 2013. This was the first take off controlled by the Global Hawk Operations Center-2 (GHOC-2), located at Wallops. GHOC-1 is located at NASA Dryden, Calif. The GH872 departure marks the HS3 mission's first science flight. GH 872 It is scheduled to return on Aug. 21. For more Global Hawk and HS3 images, visit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa_goddard/sets/72157631588643301 For NASA's HS3 mission, visit: www.nasa.gov/HS3.

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Credit: NASA/Brea Reeves

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