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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: 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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