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Onderwerp: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER AND FLORIDA PLAN NEW LIFE SCIENCES FACILITY
NASA News
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
John F. Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899
For Release: Oct. 6, 1998
KSC Release No. 116-98
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER AND FLORIDA PLAN NEW LIFE SCIENCES FACILITY
NASA Kennedy Space Center and Spaceport Florida Authority (SFA) have agreed
to begin plans to construct a $15 million, 100,000-square-foot facility on
KSC property to function as a research laboratory. Officials expect the
facility to support domestic and international experiments that will fly
aboard the International Space Station, Space Shuttle, and future proposed
reusable launch vehicles such as VentureStar.
KSC's current life sciences facilities are cramped and decentralized. A new
facility will help managers consolidate the majority of KSC's life sciences
research activities in one location and replace the old Hangar L facility.
Hangar L, located across the Banana River from KSC, was modified in the
early 1980's into a laboratory facility and has become too small to support
the processing needs of current life sciences Shuttle missions. The old
facility is also becoming expensive to operate and maintain.
"This will be another stepping stone on Kennedy's path to the
future," said KSC Director Roy Bridges. "Day by day we are focusing more on
research and development endeavors at KSC and a new Life Sciences Research
Facility is the kind of resource we need to get our job done. It also
promises new opportunities for the private sector."
The facility concept features a variety of biological specimen holding areas
and laboratories. Equipped to support ecological, developmental,
physiological, and molecular experiments, the laboratories will serve
researchers from a broad range of life sciences disciplines. Ongoing KSC
efforts to develop a bioregenerative life support system for long duration
space travel and ecological investigations aimed at understanding the
Merritt Island coastal eco-system are two research efforts that could
prosper with upgraded resources.
SFA will finance and construct the KSC designed facility on the west side of
KSC's industrial area. NASA will lease a major portion of this facility from
SFA and make the facilities available to the Kennedy's Life Sciences Support
Contractor, Dynamac Corporation, who processes NASA's life sciences
experiments and conducts much of the laboratory research and technology
development activities.
Officials expect other governmental, academic, commercial, and international
research programs to take advantage of the new facility. Construction
begins in mid 1999 and completion is expected by 2001. This facility is the
first phase in the development of a research industrial campus capable of
serving a host of organizations involved in space related research.
Spaceport Florida Authority was established by Florida's governor and
legislature to serve the growth needs of the State's space industry,
including the development and conversion of infrastructure for space
transportation, manufacturing, education, and research and development.
Status reports and other NASA publications are available on the
World Wide Web at:
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/kscpao.htm .
Information about the countdown and mission can be accessed
electronically via the Internet at:
http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/countdown/ and at http://shuttle.nasa.gov/
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