Rocket_Center,_West_Virginia

Rocket Center, West Virginia

Rocket Center, West Virginia

Unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States

Rocket Center, West Virginia is the site of a government installation known as Allegany Ballistics Laboratory, part of the Naval Sea Systems Command which is currently operated by Northrop Grumman. Rocket Center shares a ZIP Code with Keyser but is located 15 miles (24 km) north along the North Branch Potomac River in Mineral County, West Virginia. There are no residents in Rocket Center.

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Also on the site is the Robert C. Byrd Hilltop Office Complex and the Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing, both named for the second-longest-serving member of Congress, the late United States Senator Robert C. Byrd.[2]

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  1. [1]
    U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rocket Center, West Virginia
  2. [2]
    Miller, Megan; Spradlin, Kevin (May 24, 2010). "ATK blast rocks area". Cumberland Times-News. Retrieved July 15, 2017.


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