For Sale: NASA Launchpad, Gently Used

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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...

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