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TUESDAY, MA SERVING BREVARD COUNTY SINCE 1966 FLORIDATODAY.COM AS SEEN ON TV It Sonny Crockett of but it is his boat, pal. 3A 7-8C 10A 2A 11AB 6A 9A 4A Sports on 2C Rain thunders into Brevard 83 73 Details 12A FLORIDA TODAY 51, No. To home delivery pricing see page 2A $1.50 More than 1million gallons of raw sewage went into a canal that leads to the Banana River, after an old sewer pipe broke last week on South Patrick Drive near the border of Satellite Beach and Indian Harbour Beach. 20-year-old said Don Walker, spokesman for Brevard County. kind of a problem got all over the To prevent sewage backups at homes and businesses, the county diverted 688,000 gallons of raw sewage into a pond near Sea Park Elementary School and 1.05 million gallons of raw sewage into Anchor Drive Canal, which connects with the Banana River.

Last repair of the leaking sewer force main was complicated by excessive inflow of groundwater in the excavation area, county officials said, because it was so close to a canal. The pipe was 9 feet underground. Utility staff and two contractors worked around the clock for 38 hours, county officials said. the first 24 hours, the ability to store haul sewage was exhausted, so the decision was made to divert Spill sent 1million gallons of sewage toward river JIM WAYMER Brevard County had to divert more than 1million gallons of sewage last week into a canal that onnects with the Banana River. JIM WAYMER FLORIDA TODAY Half a mile above its landing target early on May 6, a SpaceX rocket booster lammed on the brakes, firing three eng ines to cut its speed by more than 3 00mph in three seconds.

The Falcon 9 first stage then ouched down gently in darkness on the deck of a ship in the Atlantic Ocean, completing a high-speed, 75-mile drop. The sea landing showed SpaceX can ecover boosters intact from some of its most challenging launches, but the rock- searing return from space took a toll. CEO Elon Musk indicated the rocket stage may not be in shape to launch again, but will help the company assess he flight-worthiness of boosters recovered in the future. Most recent rocket took max damage, due to (very) high entry Musk said on Twitter. be our life leader for ground tests to confirm others a re paceX on Saturday moved the 14-sto- Falcon 9 booster charred gray and black along most of its length to a hangar at Kennedy Space pad 39A, where it joined two other landed stages.

Musk said. hose first two recovered stages ere missions flown to low orbits that offered more benign landing conditions. The one launched on May 6 delivered a apanese communications satellite, JCSAT-14, to an orbit more than 22,000 miles above the equator, requiring more peed. SPACEX The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that aunched the JCSAT-14 satellite from Cape anaveral on May 6 is seen after its return to the hangar at Kennedy Space pad 39A. Rocket suffered damage JAMES DEAN FLORIDA TODAY View a galler of photos on the return: A World War II began in 1939, the population of Florida was less than 2million.

The population of the state grew exponentially each decade after World War II, and military installations constructed during that conflict were a major factor in that growth. Daniel Hutchinson is an assistant professor of history at Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina. His doctoral dissertation at Florida State University was Bases and the Transformation of the Rural South During World War the Great Depression, tourism to Florida really took a very big hit, and with the coming of World War II, many Florida communities that relied on tourism saw military bases as a way to Hutchinson said. resorts, tourist destinations of all inds sent letters to the War Department saying our hotel into a troop training facility, or a troop recreational facility, or a convalescent and the War Department took up these WWII ROOTS FLORIDA TODAY An aerial photo of U.S. Naval Air Station Melbourne, which is now Melbourne International Airport.

Military contracts helped fuel growth in economy and population BEN BROTEMARKLE FOR FLORIDA TODA AP COSGROVE Orlando International Airport was originally Orlando Army Airfield It opened in 1942..