Erosion Threatens Iconic NASA Launch Pads

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Beach erosion at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Photo source: NASA

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The ocean ticks a countdown of its own, along this thin strip of beach where rockets blasted to space from NASA’s two iconic launch pads.

Waves lap ever closer to the concrete pads at Kennedy Space Center, as the moon that man reached from these sands drives tides that threaten the pads’ foundations…

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