{"id":79371,"date":"2018-06-09T16:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T23:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/nasa-publishes-spacexs-proposal-for-a-futuristic-kennedy-space-center"},"modified":"2018-06-11T11:08:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T18:08:07","slug":"nasa-publishes-spacexs-proposal-for-a-futuristic-kennedy-space-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/nasa-publishes-spacexs-proposal-for-a-futuristic-kennedy-space-center","title":{"rendered":"NASA Publishes SpaceX\u2019s Proposal for a Futuristic Kennedy Space Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-publishes-spacexs-proposal-for-a-futuristic-kennedy-space-center.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Kennedy Space Center might be getting a major upgrade and expansion soon if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/topic\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> gets his way. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/topic\/nasa\">NASA<\/a> published a plan submitted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/topic\/spacex\">SpaceX<\/a> that dramatically reimagines the company\u2019s presence at KSC in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The plans include everything from a control tower that resembles a flying saucer to a \u201crocket garden,\u201d showcasing futuristic designs that will expand the space company\u2019s footprint and potential influence within the US agency.<\/p>\n<p>NASA published a draft environmental review for the proposed SpaceX Operations Area, as first reported by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/space\/2018\/06\/08\/spacex-plans-major-expansion-kennedy-space-center\/685098002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida Today<\/a><\/em> on Friday. According to the document, SpaceX is seeking permission to build on a 67-acre patch of land about one mile north of KSC\u2019s visitor center complex.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX wants to build a 133,000-square-foot Falcon hangar to process the used boosters and other rocket materials that it recovers. The hangar would facilitate more efficient recycling of the materials which could potentially save the company billions of dollars per launch.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/45767-nasa-publishes-spacex-maps-and-renderings-proposed-rocket-garden\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/45767-nasa-publishes-spacex-...ket-garden<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kennedy Space Center might be getting a major upgrade and expansion soon if Elon Musk gets his way. NASA published a plan submitted by SpaceX that dramatically reimagines the company\u2019s presence at KSC in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The plans include everything from a control tower that resembles a flying saucer to a \u201crocket garden,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79510,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79371\/revisions\/79510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}