NASA is normally concerned with blasting rockets to space, but at the weekend it focused on blasting a former administrative headquarters to smithereens.
NASA is normally concerned with blasting rockets to space, but on Saturday it focused on blasting a former administrative headquarters to smithereens.
Building 4200 acted as the Marshall Space Flight Center’s administrative headquarters from 1963 until 2020. “NASA and its government and commercial partners have solved spaceflight’s most complex, technical problems here for nearly six decades, dating back to the groundbreaking Apollo moon missions of the 1960s and ’70s,” the agency says of Marshall on its website.
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