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Prepare for Blastoff on Va.’s Eastern Shore M8 Sunday, April 22, 2007 DC The Washington Post x Road Trip Start here Start here Earn your wings at the Freeway Aviation Flight Training Center, which offers lessons in Cessnas. The NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center has a sculpture garden of five rocket types launched from Wallops, including Little Joe, which flew monkeys Sam and Miss Sam nearly 50 years ago. Throw a party that’s, yes, out of this world with astronaut piñatas and starry banners from Shelia’s Craft & Party World. Watch for earthbound stars — Lindsay Lohan, Vice President Cheney — at Restaurant Local or in its sleek lounge at the Tidewater Inn. Feathered friends such as blue jays and Baltimore orioles come in for landings at Pickering Creek Audubon Center. 95 95 95 66 97 50 50 50 50 50 13 13 13 13 495 295 395 495 495 270 295 295 331 343 662 662 450 704 704 214 214 450 450 197 175 BUS 13 BUS 50 1 2 3 301 301 113 113 50 301 Start here Driver’s route The Class AA Bowie Baysox hit plenty of home runs high into the stands, so keep your eyes in the sky. At Manokin River Park, eat like an astronaut with a picnic of dehydrated space food (available at the Air and Space Museum gift shop). The first American in space was a Navy man, Alan B. Shepard Jr. Follow Shepard’s journey from sea to space on a tour of his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. There’s nothing but clear sky between you and the cosmos at the Queen Sound boat launch, a stargazing spot just beyond Wallops Island. The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum is its own universe of space artifacts, high- tech flight simulators and one of the best gift shops on the Mall (three stories of spacey goods). TALBOT COUNTY ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY QUEEN ANNE’S COUNTY DORCHESTER COUNTY WICOMICO COUNTY WORCESTER COUNTY SOMERSET COUNTY ACCOMACK CO. ATLANTIC OCEAN Salisbury Chincoteague Cambridge Easton Annapolis Bowie Princess Anne CHURCH STREET SHARP ROAD LONGWOODS ROAD AUDUBON LANE OLD MD. 450 CHURCH ROAD MOUNT OAK ROAD MITCHELLVILLE ROAD SOUTHEAST FREEWAY PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE EXIT 8 EXIT 24 C h e s a p e a k e B a y DELAWARE MARYLAND VIRGINIA VIRGINIA D.C. MARYLAND DOVER RO A D 0 MILES 15 WHERE: Wallops Island, Va. WHY: Rockets, man; star sightings; and avian flybys. HOW FAR: About 170 miles, or 3 1 ⁄2 hours by car, from Washington. T hank your lucky stars, because one of the busiest rocket-launch facilities on Earth doesn’t require a flight suit — just a pair of sturdy driving shoes. Things blast off almost daily from the Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Established in 1945, NASA’s main station for suborbital research programs is one of the oldest launch sites in the world and one of the busiest, with more than 15,000 flight missions under its belt. Last year alone, 350 aero-events were conducted there, and on most mornings with clear weather, the launchpad is fueled up and ready to 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 . . . . The latest orbit-bound object, scheduled to be launched Monday, is a 69-foot-tall Minotaur 1 rocket that will place a satellite high above the atmosphere. (As of press time, all systems were go.) In coming months, look to the skies around Chincoteague, and you could very well see the send-off of an experimental unmanned aircraft or practice takeoffs and landings of Navy F-18 fighter jets. The next major event — a two-stage suborbital rocket — is set for October. The best place to view a launch is on the second-floor observation deck atop the visitor center. (Don’t forget to first tour the museum, which is crammed with such space-age esoterica as a moon rock and an astronaut suit.) The center is five miles north of the launch site, close enough that you can feel the rumble of the rocket but far enough to preserve your hearing. And those with astronaut ambitions can get in on the action: On the first Saturday of each month, amateur rocketeers shoot their own models into space — or at least into low-flying clouds. — Ben Chapman NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center, Route 175 (Chincoteague Road), six miles east of Route 13, Wallops Island, Va. Free. 757-824-2298. www.wff.nasa.gov/vc. Road Trip maps are available online at www.washingtonpost.com/roadtrip, as are addresses and hours of operation (be sure to check before you go). Have an idea for a trip? E-mail [email protected]. MAP BY JEROME COOKSON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST; PHOTOS BY BEN CHAPMAN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST WEDNESDAY IN STYLE Escapes goes kayaking and wine tasting in Cape Charles, Va.
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RoadTrip
Start hereStart here
Earn your wings at the Freeway AviationFlight Training Center, which offerslessons in Cessnas.
The NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor
Center has a sculpture garden of five rocket
types launched from Wallops, including Little
Joe, which flew monkeys Sam and Miss Sam
nearly 50 years ago.
Throw a party that’s, yes, outof this world with astronautpiñatas and starry banners fromShelia’s Craft & Party World.
Watch for earthbound stars — Lindsay Lohan,Vice President Cheney — at Restaurant Localor in its sleek lounge at the Tidewater Inn.
Feathered friends such as blue jays and
Baltimore orioles come in for landings at
Pickering Creek Audubon Center.
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Driver’s route
The Class AA Bowie Baysox hitplenty of home runs high into thestands, so keep your eyes in the sky.
At Manokin River Park, eat like an astronautwith a picnic of dehydrated space food (availableat the Air and Space Museum gift shop).
The first American in space was aNavy man, Alan B. Shepard Jr. FollowShepard’s journey from sea to spaceon a tour of his alma mater, theU.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.
There’s nothing but clear skybetween you and the cosmosat the Queen Sound boatlaunch, a stargazing spot justbeyond Wallops Island.
The Smithsonian National Airand Space Museum is its ownuniverse of space artifacts, high-tech flight simulators and one ofthe best gift shops on the Mall(three stories of spacey goods).
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WHERE: Wallops Island, Va.
WHY: Rockets, man; star sightings; and avian flybys.
HOW FAR: About 170 miles, or 31⁄2 hours by car, from Washington.
T hank your lucky stars, because one of the busiest rocket-launch facilities on Earthdoesn’t require a flight suit — just a pair of sturdy driving shoes.
Things blast off almost daily from the Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s EasternShore. Established in 1945, NASA’s main station for suborbital research programs isone of the oldest launch sites in the world and one of the busiest, with more than
15,000 flight missions under its belt. Last year alone, 350 aero-events were conducted there, andon most mornings with clear weather, the launchpad is fueled up and ready to 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 . . . .
The latest orbit-bound object, scheduled to be launched Monday, is a 69-foot-tall Minotaur 1rocket that will place a satellite high above the atmosphere. (As of press time, all systems werego.) In coming months, look to the skies around Chincoteague, and you could very well see thesend-off of an experimental unmanned aircraft or practice takeoffs and landings of Navy F-18fighter jets. The next major event — a two-stage suborbital rocket — is set for October.
The best place to view a launch is on the second-floor observation deck atop the visitor center.(Don’t forget to first tour the museum, which is crammed with such space-age esoterica as amoon rock and an astronaut suit.) The center is five miles north of the launch site, close enoughthat you can feel the rumble of the rocket but far enough to preserve your hearing.
And those with astronaut ambitions can get in on the action: On the first Saturday of eachmonth, amateur rocketeers shoot their own models into space — or at least into low-flyingclouds.
— Ben ChapmanNASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center, Route 175 (Chincoteague Road), six miles east of Route 13, Wallops Island, Va. Free. 757-824-2298.www.wff.nasa.gov/vc.
Road Trip maps are available online at www.washingtonpost.com/roadtrip, as areaddresses and hours of operation (be sure to check before you go). Have an idea for a
trip? E-mail [email protected].
MAP BY JEROME COOKSON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST; PHOTOS BY BEN CHAPMAN FOR THE WASHINGTON POSTWEDNESDAY IN STYLE Escapes goes kayaking and wine tasting in Cape Charles, Va.
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ARCTIC MONKEYS BY PEROU; CHUCK BROWN BY SAM HOLDEN; NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM BY DOANE GREGORY — 20TH CENTURY FOX VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
“She reviews her marital history. Nearly
thrice married. Once divorced. Once
widowed. Once left at the altar.”
— Sydney’s romantic woes
Deception abounds in this
engrossing page turner. The
embittered family drama has
unforeseen plot twists and
character tiffs galore.
The lead singer for
Oregon band Richmond
Fontaine delivers a debut
road-trip novel that echoes
the spare, bleak style of such
writers as Denis Johnson and
Raymond Carver.
The high-energy,
bass-driven sound
ensures nonstop play
at hipster clubs, and the
fun, jaunty vibe makes it
the perfect warm-up to a
night of heavy partying.
“You used to get it in your
fi shnets/Now you only get it in your
housedress/Discarded all your naughty nights for
niceness/Landed in a very common crisis.”
— “Fluorescent Adolescent”
Many of the songs wouldn’t sound out of place
at Starbucks, and aside from the conspicuous
guest appearances, the album fails to break any
real new ground.— S.C.
Certain scenes won’t make sense if
readers haven’t read Marvel’s Civil
War series, in which superheroes
battle one another over whether
they should have to register their
powers with the govern-
ment. — Evan Narcisse
If you don’t care about
the royals, this might not
be your cup of tea.— J.R.
The fi rst few levels of puzzles are so ridiculously
easy, you’ll be annoyed that you have to work
your way through them.— Christopher Healy
The game takes about three
seconds to learn, but some
of the puzzles will tax your
brain for hours.
Mirren’s work deserves the
accolades. Two commentary tracks,
one with the creative team and
another with royal historians, add
helpful background
information.
There’s a
surprising
amount to love:
Stiller fi nds a
perfect comic foil in a capuchin monkey,
Williams’s riffi ng is muzzled and the be-
hind-the-scenes extras are informative.
When sanctioned villains are
allowed to hunt superheroes, Frank
Castle, the unrepentant death-dealing vigilante
known as the Punisher, fi nds it harder to pursue
his brand of justice.
The growling D.C.
go-go legend returns
with his fi rst album of
new material in years.
Helen Mirren and
Michael Sheen star as
Queen Elizabeth II and a
newly elected Tony Blair
dealing (or not dealing) with
the events immediately after
the death of Princess Diana.
The British breakout band of
2006 returns with a bombastic
sophomore album full of infectious rock anthems
and odes to young life.
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Two brothers compete for the heart
of the emotionally adrift
Sydney Sklar. The fallout
rattles the entire family.
Body Surfi ng By Anita Shreve
Little, Brown and Co.
$25.99
Fraction pulls off
the diffi cult feat
of making Castle’s
psychosis seem
layered, sympathetic
and darkly gleeful.
“We gonna bebop it in/
Crock it in/Flip-fl op it in/Hip-hop it
in/B.J. jock it in/You can’t knock it
in/Just pocket in/Sock it in/
When you rock it in/
You got it locked in.”
— “Jock It In”
The best moments evoke Brown’s energetic
live performances, with fun-loving call-and-
response choruses and rowdy,
funked-up arrangements.
“I’m made of wax. What are you
made of?”
— Theodore Roosevelt, played by Robin Williams, right,
gives Larry a pep talk
“Will someone please save these
people from themselves!”
— Tony Blair (Sheen) is frustrated by the monarchy’s PR mistakes
The author conveys the pain and
desolate lives of his characters without a hint
of melodrama.
Ben Stiller plays Larry, a down-on-his-luck dad
who takes a job as a night watchman at
New York’s American
Museum of Natural
History, where the exhibits
come to life after sunset.
Play in a race against time with
an ever-growing grid or ponder
no-time-limit puzzles.
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Poor Ricky Gervais is
brutally typecast, and the
endless special effects
wear thin after a while.— Justin Rude
Anyone who enjoys the story will
wish that it went on longer, if only
in the hope that the plot will take a happy turn.— Sara Cardace
Some lines don’t make
sense at all (“D is for
delightful/And try and
keep your trousers on”?),
and the sonic onslaught
may be too rapid-fi re and
noisy for some. — S.C.
The “anti-honeymoon” scenes
while Sydney is in Boston feel like
underdeveloped fi ller compared
with the meaty rest.— Reviewed by Alexis Burling
“Maybe there was nothing anyone
could say. I saw the kid in the back
seat, with his bent legs and arms, all
day long. I knew it would haunt me.”
— The protagonist fi xates on a nightmarish incident
in his and his brother’s past
“You knew exactly who
and what you were bargaining
with. You needed someone to do the
dirty work when the time came.”
— The Punisher, after Captain America confronts him for killing in cold blood
Strategize your way through a honeycomb-
shaped grid, changing the colors of spaces until
the grid is uniform.
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Punisher War Journal, Vol. 1 By Matt Fraction
and Ariel Olivetti
Marvel Comics
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Night at the Museum Rated PG
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