[CPEO-MEF] ROCKETS: Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (FL)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This reminds me of my 1990 report, "No Free Launch." - LS


Shuttle, rocket liftoffs leave legacy of costly cleanups at KSC

NASA will spend millions removing chemicals from deep beneath launch  
pads

Jim Waymer
Florida Today
July 30, 2011

NASA spent decades to send men to the moon, launch the space shuttles  
and build a laboratory in space, and now it will take a century to  
clean up the chemical messes left behind.

Plumes of carcinogenic chemicals used in the launching of the space  
shuttles, Apollo moon shots and other rockets seeped deep into sandy  
soils beneath launch pads and other structures at Kennedy Space  
Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

They form viscous toxic goo that will take $1 billion in cleanup  
costs agencywide over many decades, and could bog down funding for  
next-generation spacecraft.

NASA estimates it will spend $96 million in the next 30 years at KSC,  
including $6 million this year. The Air Force says it will take  
another $50 million to get the rest of its cleanups at Cape Canaveral  
under way by 2017.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011107310321

See also
Turns out, Kennedy Space Center critters are pretty healthy
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20110731/NEWS01/107310322



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Lenny Siegel
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