ocr: GEOGRAPHICA Kodiak Island Rockets Into Space Think of it a52 a Cape Canaveral in. Alaska. With bears nearby. And whales. And seabirds. By 1999 rockets bearing pri- vate communications satellites or military payloads may, soar from a launchpad on Kodial Island (GEDGRAFHIC, November 1993). The: site, on state land near scenic Ugak Bay (right),is 30 miles from the wildlife-refuge home of most of the island's nearly 3,000 brown bears. "Rock- ets will fly over the occan with payloads up to: 8,000 pounds," E0 a LEY says Pat Ladner, director of the Alaska Aerospace Development Federal wildlite ottici ...
