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[i]"Next year is the 75th anniversary of that first launch. Even these students' parents weren't born when Bumper launched," said Roger McCormick, a Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum docent. McCormick rattled off a list of artifacts unearthed thus far at the blockhouse study site: [list][*]Mirror fragments from the periscope rocket viewing system. [*]A Coca-Cola bottle that was distributed from Cocoa. [*]Sections of tarpaper from the roof. [*]Burlap from sandbags piled around the building. [*]Part of a comb.[/list] "I wonder if the people who were working here back in 1950 thought, 'Hey, 75 years from now, they're going to be doing archaeology right where we're standing. We're going to be that important,' " McCormack said.[/i]
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