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He occasionally covers courts, public safety and breaking news.Note: This does not represent any real reactor although the sorts of Jeremy Childs is the East County Reporter for the Ventura County Star, covering the communities of Thousand Oaks, Moorpark and Simi Valley. More information about local efforts to protest the demolition can be found on the organization's website at. Degradation of the stands would also escalate demolition costs if NASA waited until after site cleanup was done, with the report estimating demolition ballooning to $27 million by 2045.Īlthough demolition is already being underway for one of the three Coca test stands, Wiesbrock and Brehm remain hopeful they can save at least part of the Coca test area.
Sudnik, the NASA spokeswoman, noted the report didn't account for the price of ongoing maintenance, which would cost more than the initial demolition figure. Wiesbrock pointed out a 2019 Inspector General report that listed the cost of demolishing the Coca stands as $6 million more expensive than preserving them. In the intervening years, Save Open Space has been in contact with NASA personnel to present various counterarguments to demolition. "They had formed a committee called the Programmatic Agreement Committee," Brehm said, to determine what would be demolished and what would be saved as far as NASA property at the field lab site.īrehm said despite objections he and fellow advocates made at the time, NASA proceeded with the demolition decision. He recalled how the decision to demolish the Coca test stands was made nearly a decade ago. A former photojournalist, Brehm shot a special issue of Pace magazine in 1969 dedicated to the moon landing and has a special affinity for the event. The Coca III test stand at the Santa Susana Field Lab.īell Canyon resident Tim Brehm, vice president of Save Open Space, has been involved with efforts to preserve the Coca stands since 2014. The website can be found at nps.gov/hdp/exhibits/ssfl/intro/index.html. All three sets have been archived by the National Park Service, which launched a website featuring photographs and 3D models as part of a virtual tour. Three sets of stands were built at the field lab: Alfa, Bravo and Coca. Part of NASA’s process has involved demolishing the rocket test stands that remain. The western part of the field lab is the former Rocketdyne site where a partial nuclear reactor meltdown took place in 1959.Ĭleanup of the site has undergone long delays, with Boeing and NASA both responsible for decontaminating the area. All are located at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, an approximately 2,850-acre space south of Simi Valley with sites owned by Boeing and NASA. The test stand site complicates preservation efforts. Wiesbrock touted Save Open Space’s successful track record from previous campaigns, such as the preservation of 5,000 acres at Ahmanson Ranch by the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. "We want them saved for future generations." "These are very historical test stands," Wiesbrock said. Demolition of the stands began earlier this month. The group Save Open Space, which advocates for the preservation of public lands from development, has been fighting for years to prevent the demolition of the so-called Coca test stands, which stand over 100 feet tall and were used in the mid-20th century to test the Saturn V rockets used during the Apollo moon missions.Īgoura Hills resident Mary Wiesbrock, president and founder of Save Open Space, believes the Coca stands are worth the cost of preservation. The Coca IV test stand, left, and the Coca III stand at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.Ī local grassroots organization is taking a last stand against the current demolition of NASA rocket test stands at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.
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