NASA is accepting bids for the demolition of Pad 39B!

[ddeclue]

http://nais.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/synopsis.cgi?acqid=135348

This should be a national historic landmark - they should not be allowed to tear it down! We launched moon missions from there and countless shuttle missions.

:cry:

[liberal N proud]

1. Yes it should be preserved

But the American way is tear it down for progress.

[Octafish]

2. The place where the first humans left the earth for the moon should be a National Historic Landmark.

For shame, NASA! What's next? Are there plans to re-name the Kennedy Space Center?

[Atman]

6. I used to surf in the shadow of 39B

Well, not literally in the shadow, unless the sun was extremely low. But back in the day, you drove through the Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge, and as long as there was no launch impending you could drive past the launch pads and surf the point (check out a map of the space center!) at Playalinda Beach. It was kinda surreal. Awesome point break with big-ass rocket gantries on the shore.

Back home in Cocoa Beach, the next best break was Patrick Air Force Base. The best break was right near the end of the runway. You'd literally have to dive just when the jets took off just block the roar of the engines. Patrick was the base used by the astronauts for training flights and their base when they came in for missions.

I grew up in very unusual surroundings! LOL!

Sad to see 39b go...but I know a few friends who could get me a piece!

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[aquart]

7. What happened to 39a?

[Octafish]

9. Wow! Maybe I saw you surfing!

My grandfather took me twice to then-Cape Kennedy and the Kennedy Space Center.

As a kid, I'd have given any thing to have been a part of the space program.



One of my life's great honors was, a few years back, to shake hands with Eugene Cernan.
He was the skipper of Apollo 17 and the last man to walk on the moon.
In the photo above, he's making an EVA on Gemini IX.

[asdjrocky]

3. They are killing my childhood.

God this is so sad.

[Xipe Totec]

4. WTF!

We don't have money for the moon project, but he have money to waste demolishing a historic landmark?!

:wtf:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. Are they putting condominiums or a shopping mall? nt

:sarcasm:

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

8. uhh... why start there?

The site is littered with abandoned launch complexes - why start with that one?

[The Straight Story]

10. Someone from China will probably get to do it... (nt)

[Octafish]

11. You know about Magnequench?

Outsourcing U.S. Missile Technology to China

[leveymg]

13. Gee, that let's build up China as a counter to Russia strategy worked better than anyone expected!

What, exactly, was G.H.W. Bush & Co. thinking at the time of this and the Hughes-Loral missile guidance system and the W-70/88 warhead transfers? What was he thinking when he also signed off on the "Safari Club" deal with the Saudis that outsourced US intelligence operations to privatized operators and set up BCCI, AQ Khan, and Saudi global paramilitary capabilities?

What WAS he thinking?

[Edweird]

12. That's a pretty huge "F U' to everyone.