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NASA Seeks to Curb Bird Threat to Shuttle

By David Kestenbaum
Published June 30, 2006 at 1:00 PM EDT
NASA is sweeping the grounds at Kennedy Space Center for road kill, and then using the carcasses as bait to capture vultures. The birds will be released after the shuttle launches. Here, a vulture and an armadillo outside the space center.
Nell Boyce, NPR
NASA is sweeping the grounds at Kennedy Space Center for road kill, and then using the carcasses as bait to capture vultures. The birds will be released after the shuttle launches. Here, a vulture and an armadillo outside the space center.

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David Kestenbaum
David Kestenbaum is a correspondent for NPR, covering science, energy issues and, most recently, the global economy for NPR's multimedia project Planet Money. David has been a science correspondent for NPR since 1999. He came to journalism the usual way — by getting a Ph.D. in physics first.