NASA Put Man on the Moon, but Comp Paid for Deaths, Injuries Along the Way

Fifty years ago this month, the world's attention was focused on man's first landing on the moon. It was history in the making and arguably the high point in the manned space program. Often overlooked in the space race is the role that workers' compensation coverage played as thousands of construction workers, technicians and service personnel descended on Florida to build the launch pads, test the rockets and service the massive Kennedy Space Center that sprang up almost overnight on Cape Canaveral. Later, other workers dismantled some of those Apollo moon-shot st...