Teams from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Fish and Wildlife Services, and the National Park Service cleared debris along the shoreline near the Beach House on Friday, May 8, 2026, to make the journey a little easier for mother turtles coming ashore to lay their eggs during nesting season now through October. NASA Kennedy is home to four nesting sea turtles: Loggerhead, Green, Leatherback, and occasionally the Kemp’s ridley turtles.
Teams from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Fish and Wildlife Services, and the National Park Service cleared debris along the shoreline near the Beach House on Friday, May 8, 2026, to make the journey a little easier for mother turtles coming ashore to lay their eggs during nesting season now through October. NASA Kennedy is home to four nesting sea turtles: Loggerhead, Green, Leatherback, and occasionally the Kemp’s ridley turtles.
Teams from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Fish and Wildlife Services, and the National Park Service cleared debris along the shoreline near the Beach House on Friday, May 8, 2026, to make the journey a little easier for mother turtles coming ashore to lay their eggs during nesting season now through October. NASA Kennedy is home to four nesting sea turtles: Loggerhead, Green, Leatherback, and occasionally the Kemp’s ridley turtles.
Teams from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Fish and Wildlife Services, and the National Park Service cleared debris along the shoreline near the Beach House on Friday, May 8, 2026, to make the journey a little easier for mother turtles coming ashore to lay their eggs during nesting season now through October. NASA Kennedy is home to four nesting sea turtles: Loggerhead, Green, Leatherback, and occasionally the Kemp’s ridley turtles.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A beach on NASA's Kennedy Space Center is the site designated for cleanup of debris. More than 130 volunteers from the joint NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service contract organizations give up their afternoon to gather all the “unnatural” items that had accumulated on 6.1 miles of central Florida east coast shoreline during the past 12 months. Part of the center's dedication to a clean environment, volunteers gathered enough trash to fill approximately 450 garbage bags and enough recyclable plastic and glass to fill 150 bags. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis