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SpaceX plans to build an Operations Area on 63-67 acres between the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building and Industrial Center. The highlights include 300-foot tall tower housing a launch and landing control center, a booster and fairing processing and storage facility, and a rocket garden:
It will be an operational monument to Elon Musk's vision: a towering SpaceX launch control center, a 133,000-square-foot hangar and a rocket garden rising in the heart of Kennedy Space Center.
According to plans detailed in a draft environmental review published recently by KSC, SpaceX will undertake a major expansion of its facilities at the space center sometime in the not-too-distant future.
The review says SpaceX is seeking more room and a bigger presence "in its pursuit of a complete local, efficient, and reusable launch vehicle program."
The expansion would enable SpaceX to store and refurbish large numbers of Falcon rocket boosters and nose cones at the operations center down the road from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10 2018, @04:50PM (5 children)
A 300 foot Muskie Tower of Awesomeness.
Let me guess, the second-tallest tower down there is no bigger than 299 feet?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by takyon on Sunday June 10 2018, @05:11PM (4 children)
There's a rumor that BFR's height will be increased to make it taller than Saturn V and SLS.
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(Score: 2) by snufu on Monday June 11 2018, @01:29AM (3 children)
The phallic competition theory explains these expenditures better than the any gains to scientific understanding. Why not spend this money on unmanned probes which provide actual scientific bang for the buck. Humans aren't going anywhere.
Also, is no one disturbed by the incursion of one person's private vanity statues onto hallowed public property?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday June 11 2018, @01:35AM
A fully reusable rocket that can deliver 150 tons to low Earth orbit (maybe more with a height increase) certainly advances scientific understanding by allowing for more bang for the buck when launching telescopes and unmanned probes. Try thinking before you comment.
Maybe we shouldn't worship the space activities of the past, but look to the future.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday June 11 2018, @02:03AM
You can get vastly more bang for the buck, if you don't involve space at all.
Then not much point to learning about the universe is there? The value of science is in its amazing utility. Abandon that and it's just an expensive and complex hobby.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday June 11 2018, @02:09AM
Vanity phallic statues for Elon Musk is one of the best uses of that hallowed public property in at least a generation. If I were Musk, I'd be a bit worried about the STDs one can catch from this arrangement. Orbital Sciences used to be an up and comer too.