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WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center says a humpback whale that was found stranded on the Eastern Shore of Virginia will be euthanized.

The whale was found on a secluded section of Wallops Island on Wednesday morning.

The aquarium's marketing director, Linda Candler, says stranded whales typically don't survive. Candler says initial reports from a stranding response team indicated that the whale is a large juvenile.

She says the whale is between 30 and 40 feet long. A necropsy will be performed on Thursday.

ATLANTIC, Va. (AP) — NASA has launched a rocket carrying an inflatable heat-shield technology demonstration flight from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

The agency says a Black Brant XI sounding rocket carrying the Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment was launched Monday morning. It's projected to splash down about 100 miles east of Cape Hatteras, NC.

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ATLANTIC, Va. (AP) — NASA has successfully launched a suborbital sounding rocket carrying educational experiments from its facility on Wallops Island.

The rocket was sent to an altitude of 73 miles on Thursday before crashing in the Atlantic Ocean off the Virginia coast.