WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (WAVY) — NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility held a public information meeting Monday night to discuss environmental and safety concerns after the recent Antares rocket explosion.
An unmanned rocket on its way to the International Space Station exploded seconds after launch from Wallops Island, October 28. NASA’s Associate Chief of Communications for Wallops Flight Facility, Jeremy Eggers, said data collection and testing hasn’t stopped since the mishap, and it won’t stop any time soon.
Accomack County residents and all community members were invited to Monday’s information session at Wallops Visitor Center. Attendees had varying reasons for wanting to know the environmental impact of the explosion: one attendee was a local farmer, another person’s house had damage to it after the explosion.
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We know it won't stop Jeremy, nor would it stop if 10 times or 100 times as much damage had been done.Nice touch inviting Accomack residents to discuss a situation literally involving rocket science.Appeasement seems to be the accepted practice these days,but if residents had shown up with radiation blisters from head to toe it would not have mattered or changed things one iota.
ReplyDelete8:37 there was nothing radioactive on this Rocket so no threat of radiation blisters.
ReplyDeleteNASA can dump billions of gallons of poison into the ocean, and still would only be a small sample of what the chicken industry has done!
ReplyDeleteNASA is a gov't agency. They can do what they want. Little piss ants like us have no say.
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