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Wednesday, February 22, 2012


NASA's got problems, and no center is feeling it as bad as KSC. What to do with all that launch hardware we don't need anymore?
“I have a lot of facilities that we, NASA, no longer need,” said Robert Cabana, Kennedy’s director and a four-time space shuttle flier. “I don’t have the money to maintain them, I don’t have the money to tear them down. They’re just going to sit and rot.”
Wow, what a lovely sentiment. What a fine coda to the greatest technological accomplishment in the history of the planet. Could it get worse? Sure it could:
To accommodate the rocket, workers have already torn down the big gray tower on one of the two space shuttle launch pads. Cabana said NASA recouped $621,000 from selling miles of copper wire stripped out of the 25-story structure.
Awesome! NASA's selling off parts of the launch center for scrap! How perfect!



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