Marines and engineers were swarming from personnel transports, machines from the freighters.

As investigators and engineers swarmed over the site below gray skies that threatened rain, trucks and cars forced to detour around a closed portion of the toll road rumbled through the communities that dot the dairy farmland along the Mohawk River.

Now architects, engineers and workmen are swarming over the landmark's exterior and the total cost of their repairs will exceed $200 million - over $600 a square foot.

German engineers swarmed over those like flies over the corpses, salvaging whatever they could.

None of the troubles appeared to be directly related to the booster itself, which sat silently on a desert hillside as engineers swarmed around it, then scurried back to underground bunkers to try repeated firings.

There was a great flurry of activity, and the engineers swarmed in to replace the giant rotor.