Welcome to The-Aero-Space.com. Our mission is to share accurate information about Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), a type of non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, and its relationship to radiation and toxic chemical exposures known to the aerospace industry in an effort to make monumental changes to the current policy of the Energy Employee Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA). Currently the EEOICPA relies on old and incorrect science in their determination that CLL is a non-radiogenic disease, and this illness is excluded from the list of specified compensable cancers under this program. The EEOICPA does not acknowledge the reclassification of this disease by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Revised European American Lymphoma Classification Scheme (REAL), or the Veterans Administration. Recent and relevant science is being ignored, and correction to this mistake is mired in bureaucratic red tape. Meanwhile, the aerospace professionals who have served our country are dying of this illness while awaiting compensation or after their claims have been denied. The-Aero-Space has compiled a wealth of recent scientific research on CLL/NHL and its relationship to radiation and toxic chemical exposure related to aerospace, as well as historic documents pertaining to Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) that strongly support the inclusion of every employee at SSFL under the EEOICPA program. You can download The-Aero-Space Radiation and Chemical books here. SSFL is a multifaceted issue. This once prolific nuclear and rocket engine testing facility located just thirty miles north of Los Angeles, California, was home to one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, and the first meltdown in the United States; an event which went undisclosed to the public for twenty years. Environmental contamination fifty years later is still staggering. Environmental laws were broken for decades. Chemicals and radionuclides were intentionally released into the atmosphere in unprecedented and staggering amounts. At ground zero: the employees, who are now suffering from illnesses and the fatal flaws left uncorrected in the very program designed to assist them: the EEOICPA. In order for there to be resolution to SSFL and its employees, as well as the patriots across this nation who have served their country during the Cold War, the EEOICPA must live up to the purpose for which it was created and stop denying claims. Their rules must be based on recent and relevant science, they must account for the widely known lack of documentation during the atomic industry's infancy, and stop dancing around the issues and passing the buck, in their efforts to keep from paying those heroes who were harmed during the advancement of nuclear weaponry and the space program.