Shuttle Comms Relay Station Mothballed
NASA's Merritt Island Launch Annex (MILA) in Florida has been decommissioned, marking another casualty of the end of the space shuttle program. Located on 61 acres of land just west of the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex, MILA provided communications between the orbiters and Mission Control in...
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