James Dean - Florida Today - NASA decommissioned the Merritt Island Launch Annex tracking station a week after the final shuttle landing in July 2011, ceremonially pointing a 30-foot antenna skyward.
Just over a year later, the station’s control center, two S-band antenna stands and supporting structures were gone.
“It looks like a golf course now,” says Dan Tweed, associate director for facilities at Kennedy Space Center.
The tracking station was among the first shuttle-related facilities razed at KSC, and dozens more – ranging from buildings to small substations and fuel tanks – are slated to come down over the next few years.
That work, plus final contract closeouts, is what remains to be done after an 18-month effort to shut down the shuttle program across the country.
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