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Roadkill threat to space conquest

NASA has long looked to conquer space, and has now also set its sights on conquering something a little closer to home: roadkill. Reuters.com reports that vultures have been feeding on roadkill around the Kennedy Space Centre and then flying into spaceships – the Discovery shuttle hit a vulture on its climb to orbit in July 2004. A ‘road kill posse’ has now been set up by NASA to clear the 6,000 acre site of the bodies of possums, raccoons, feral pigs, squirrels, birds and other animals killed by traffic, in order to cut off the vulture’s food supply and force them to relocate. About 500 pounds of animal carcasses have been removed since the program began two weeks ago.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .