Does Virginia's spaceport have the right stuff?

All his life, 65-year-old Craig Purdy has had his eye on the sky.

As a teenager in sleepy, rural Chincoteague in the early '60s, he watched "rocket shots" out of nearby Wallops, then a Naval air station on a marshy 6-square-mile slip of barrier island in Accomack County on the Eastern Shore. Small sounding rockets would soar into the upper atmosphere and beyond, hovering to study the winds, the sun, the moon or the elements before tumbling back to earth.

Expanded Research Focus for ODU Vision Lab Comes into View

For more than a decade, the Machine Vision and Computational Intelligence Laboratory (Vision Lab) has conducted complex, groundbreaking vision and video research.