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Operations => Aerospace Education => Topic started by: Brad on January 08, 2013, 04:16:34 PM

Title: For Sale: NASA Launchpad, Gently Used
Post by: Brad on January 08, 2013, 04:16:34 PM
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/for-sale-nasa-launchpad-gently-used/266857/ (http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/for-sale-nasa-launchpad-gently-used/266857/)

QuoteFor Sale: NASA Launchpad, Gently Used
By Megan Garber
Jan 4 2013, 5:25 PM ET


On July 20, 2011, at 5:57 a.m. EDT, the space shuttle Atlantis made its final touchdown on the runway of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA's storied shuttle program wasn't the only thing that came to its official end that day; the intervening year-and-a-half has also seen the slow obsolescence of the tools that allowed the program to be what it was: the rocket launch pads and the equipment hangers and the buildings of Cape Canaveral...

Edit: For copyright compliance, most of the article quote redacted. See link for full article. --MK
Title: Re: For Sale: NASA Launchpad, Gently Used
Post by: Cool Mace on January 08, 2013, 04:53:13 PM
If only I had money... Wait. How much do kidneys go for these days?