Landfill space exploration:.

Haznews, December, 1999

Parts for the International Space Station were accidentally landfilled recently when they were taken from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) facility in Huntsville, Alabama. A spokesman for the US aerospace firm, Boeing Corporation, which operates the site for the NASA, said two spherical oxygen and nitrogen tanks contained in large wooden crates were taken outside temporarily and forgotten.

They were collected by the waste disposal contractor and landfilled. An intensive search of the landfill by Boeing has failed to find the parts which cost $750,000.