Virginia Spaceport Authority

Virginia Spaceport Authority

Logo of the Virginia Spaceport Authority.
Agency overview
Formed	July 1, 1995 (1995-07-01)
Jurisdiction	Commonwealth of Virginia
Headquarters	4111 Monarch Way, Norfolk, VA 23508 (Headquarters) 7414 Atlantic Rd, Wallops Island, VA 23337 (MARS)
Agency executives	Ted Mercer, Executive Director Sean Mulligan, Deputy Executive Director Dan Givens, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Director
Website	vaspace.org virginia.gov/agencies/virginia-commercial-space-flight-authority

The Virginia Spaceport Authority,^[1] formally better known as Virginia Space, is a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia focused on bringing commercial spaceflight to Virginia and providing education in aerospace technologies across the Commonwealth. Created in 1995 as the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority (VCSFA) in the name of states' rights by the Virginia General Assembly, Virginia Space owns and operates the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, located within the Wallops Flight Facility.^[2] The subdivision assumed its current name in April 2023.