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    NASA hopes to sell off its space shuttle facilities

    http://www.bradenton.com/2013/01/02/...eir-space.html



    A group of NASA employees including astronauts that flew on space shuttle Atlantis pose for a photo at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, in Cape Canaveral. NASA plans to sell or lease former shuttle facilities.

    NASA hopes to sell off its space shuttle facilities
    By Scott Powers — Orlando Sentinel
    Published: January 2, 2013

    ORLANDO -- Does anyone need a 15,000-foot landing strip? How about a place to assemble rocket ships? Or a parachute-packing plant? An array of aerospace tracking antennas? A launchpad?

    Make us an offer, says NASA, which is quietly holding a going-out-of-business sale for the facilities used by its space shuttle program.

    The last shuttle flight ended in July 2011, when Atlantis made its final touchdown. That orbiter, like its sisters Discovery and Endeavour, is now a museum piece. As soon as some remaining cleanup and wind-down are finished at Kennedy Space Center, the shuttle program will be history.

    That has prompted NASA to advertise a long list of KSC facilities and equipment as available for use, lease or, in some cases, outright purchase by the right business.
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    ...which is quietly holding a going-out-of-business sale for the facilities used by its space shuttle program.
    This would be a better way to describe their gift shop...not their shuttle facilities. :rolleyes:
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