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[i]Commercial rocket launcher? Museum exhibit? Artificial reef? All are potential uses for three historic mobile launch platforms from which NASA's moon rockets and space shuttles leapt toward space, but which now sit idle. If those don't pan out, the two-story, 8.2 million-pound structures could be bound for the scrap heap. ...NASA hopes private companies will claim one or more of them as bases for commercial rocket launches, either borrowing the equipment as needed or buying it at auction. Potential costs were not disclosed. Those proposals will get the greatest consideration, but the agency also is collecting information from companies that could demolish MLPs for recycling and disposal, like the shuttle service towers that were dismantled at pad 39B. A third option invites "alternative and innovative solutions for divestment," uses that might not be space-related but could benefit the public. Examples: a museum exhibit, artificial reef or oil rig structure.[/i]
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