Shuttle Comms Relay Station Mothballed

NASA’s Merritt Island Launch Annex (MILA) in Florida was decommissioned this week, another fallout from the end of the space shuttle program. Located on 61 acres of land just west of Kennedy Space Center’s (KSC) Visitors Complex, MILA provided communications between the orbiters and Mission Control...

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