[CPEO-MEF] Kodiak Launch Aborted

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

According to the Associated Press, "A rocket sent aloft from the Kodiak
[Alaska] Launch Complex had to be destroyed seconds after liftoff Friday
[November 9, 2001] when trackers lost communication with the missile. It
was the first time a rocket used in testing for the missile defense
program had to be destroyed after launch, said Col. Rick Lehner,
spokesman for the missile defense program in Washington, D.C." 

Opponents of the launch program lost no time warning of they believed to
be environmental contamination from the launch. See

http://www.nonukesnorth.net/Nov9KodiakLaunch.htm

Lenny
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
lsiegel@cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org

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