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NASA is demolishing historic Apollo and Space Shuttle launch pad – Boing Boing
NASA is demolishing its Mobile Launch Platform-2, the storied Kennedy Space Center launch pad from which multiple Apollo and Space Shuttle missions lifted off….
NASA is demolishing its Mobile Launch Platform-2, the storied Kennedy Space Center launch pad from which multiple Apollo and Space Shuttle missions lifted off. Apparently the space agency is short on space as a new mobile launch platform is under construction. From collectSPACE:[…] The 25-foot-high, 160-foot-long and 135-foot-wide (8 by 50 by 40-m) platform from where the Apollo 9 and Apollo 12 crews left the planet, where the first U.S. space station, Skylab, departed for Earth orbit and from where…
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