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The Wild Side of NASA’s Campus

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19-09-2013 12:52am

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http://modernfarmer.com/2013/09/gators-rattlers-bobcats-boars-life-nasa-campus/

A few years back, an alligator breezed through a set of pressure-sensitive automatic doors, into an office building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC). As clock punchers came in for their morning shift, they were greeted by a smug, six-foot reptile, lounging under a bench in the lobby.

But the oddest part of the encounter? At NASA HQ, this type of thing happens all the time.

With the ease of say, New Yorkers griping about train delays, NASA employees discuss encounters with boars and bald eagles, raccoons and rattlesnakes, bobcats and buzzards — you get the drift.

In the ’60s, NASA bought 145,000 acres of coastal Florida property — but only needed 6,000 for the space program. They wanted to keep the rest undeveloped, an effort to spare human lives if a spacecraft crashed. The surplus acreage became a sanctuary called the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. And deep inside its teeming, semi-tropical core, NASA built a bright, sprawling campus of labs and admin buildings.

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