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Federal aid in the early 70's helps jump-start commuter rail transportation..

WRA oversees the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's New Carrollton Route with two aerial stations, surface and aerial tracks.

Renewing America's cities, en masse..

After the population's decades-long exodus to the suburbs, President Johnson sees mass transit as a way to bring people back to cities.

Bringing water to the beach..

WRA develops a water supply plan for the city that minimizes salt water exposure while providing enough to meet OC's growing need.

Marylanders head down the ocean..

Ocean City experiences a massive boom in tourism as hundreds of thousands flock to the beach each year.

WRA helps humankind touch the bottom of the ocean..

WRA develops the first industrial research facility for oceanography. Built for Westinghouse, it serves as a state-of-the-art laboratory and testing ground of generations of Cousteau’s Deepstar submersibles.

In 1960, Jacques Cousteau reveals the sea's greatest secrets..

His Deepstar 4000 submersible allows a three-person crew to venture nearly a mile beneath the ocean surface.

In 1967, WRA helps start a suburb from scratch..

WRA handles civil site and land development for Columbia, MD, a planned community with the mission of improving quality of life and eliminating racial and class segregation.

America moves to the 'burbs.

The post-WWII trend of the middle-class trading city life for yards and picket fences reshapes the American experience.

WRA gives the U.S. space program a boost..

Engineers design the Bendix ESAR (Electronically Steerable Array Radar) Facility and Spadat Radar AN/FPS 85 Space Tracker to monitor objects in orbit.

Pushing the limits of space and time..

In his 1961 speech to Congress, President Kennedy challenges the nation to send a man to the moon and bring him back safely—before the end of the decade.