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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Workers pour a concrete mix that utilizes spent material from sandblasting projects at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The experimental formula is being tested at the Propellants North facility at Kennedy and will undergo structural and other evaluations as part of a pilot project. Spent blast media, or SBM, makes up much of the waste deposited at the center's landfill and engineers are trying to develop ways to put the debris to use in other ways instead. Photo credit: NASA_Kim Shiflett