place

Tappan, West Virginia

Mountaineer Country geography stubsUnincorporated communities in Taylor County, West VirginiaUnincorporated communities in West VirginiaUse American English from July 2025Use mdy dates from July 2023

Tappan is an unincorporated community in Taylor County, West Virginia, United States.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Tappan, West Virginia (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors).

Tappan, West Virginia
Turkey Run Road,

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Tappan, West VirginiaContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 39.376111111111 ° E -80.158055555556 °
placeShow on map

Address

Turkey Run Road 1689
26354
West Virginia, United States
mapOpen on Google Maps

Share experience

Nearby Places

Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility
Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility

NASA's Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) Program was established in 1993 as part of an agency-wide strategy to provide the highest achievable levels of safety and cost-effectiveness for mission critical software. NASA's IV&V Program was founded under the NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) as a direct result of recommendations made by the National Research Council (NRC) and the Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Since then, NASA's IV&V Program has experienced growth in personnel, projects, capabilities, and accomplishments. NASA IV&V efforts have contributed to NASA's improved safety record since the program's inception. Today, Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) is an Agency-level function, delegated from OSMA to Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and managed by NASA IV&V. NASA's IV&V Program's primary business, software IV&V, is sponsored by OSMA as a software assurance technology. Having been reassigned as GSFC, NASA IV&V is Code 180 (Center Director's direct report). NASA's IV&V Program houses approximately 270 employees and leverages the expertise of in-house partners and contractors. Its facilities are located in Fairmont, West Virginia. In the summer, high school and college interns are employed in addition. On February 22, 2019, the facility was renamed to the Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility in honor of Katherine Johnson, an African-American woman who worked as a mathematician at NASA for 35 years and who is featured in the 2016 film Hidden Figures.