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Topic: Kennedy Space Center's "squiggly roads"

edmk5000
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Posts: 49
From: Homestead, FL USA
Registered: Apr 2005

posted 02-25-2011 01:39 PM

Looking at Kennedy Space Center today with Google Earth, I noticed two areas with what appear to be squiggly roads.

The areas are west of 39B and east of Kennedy Pkwy. What are these things? Some kind of off-road training tracks?

tfrielin
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Posts: 162
From: Athens, GA
Registered: Feb 2007

posted 04-24-2011 03:39 PM

Those aren't roads.

I'm pretty sure these are revetments where ordnance was stored. They date from the Apollo days and I'm not sure if they are/were still used for ordnance storage into the Shuttle era. But I remember seeing them there in 1973 when I was there for several Skylab launches.

Hope this helps.

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