Shuttle, rocket liftoffs leave legacy of costly cleanups at KSC | FLORIDA TODAY | floridatoday.com
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[NASA] 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 [KSC] 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.