Word: loggerheads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beaches near by, where thousands once stood to cheer man's reach to the moon, loggerhead turtles have taken over again. Rattlesnakes sun themselves on the empty launching pads lining the cape. Small white-tailed deer dart into clearings to feed, and bull alligators bellow in vain for the battalions of space workers who used to feed them marshmallows and jelly doughnuts. On Pad 19, from which Gemini astronauts rose on ten missions to perfect the techniques of rendezvous and docking, the bright orange tower lies useless, flat on its back. The once-gleaming white room where Gemini spacemen...