With
the shuttle program over, NASA is hoping to recoup some of its
investment and shed property no longer needed by selling it off. Several
facilities are for sale.
Among them: Launch Pad 39A,
where shuttles were launched; space in the Vehicle Assembly Building,
the iconic 526-foot-tall structure first used to assemble Saturn
V-Apollo rockets; the Orbiter Processing Facilities, essentially huge
garages where the shuttles were maintained; Hangar N and its high-tech
test equipment; the launch-control center; and various other buildings
and chunks of undeveloped property.
A lot of the stuff needs to
be transferred by the end of 2013, when federal maintenance money will
run out. When it does, machinery will start to rust, and buildings will
deteriorate in the harsh coastal-marsh environment of Cape Canaveral.
NASA
is allowing bids and proposals to be submitted quietly, and will take
plans for the properties into account as well as the amounts of the
bids.
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