“Buildings come down, but science and exploration continue onward,” NASA_Marshall Director Jody Singer said.
The building was stripped to its beams for the demolition but had once been full of offices and conference rooms – and asbestos. A common insulating material when 4200 was built, asbestos is toxic if disturbed and inhaled. NASA says entire floors would have needed to be shut down and sealed off to make any improvement such as new computer cables.
Now, Marshall is putting new technology, energy saving materials and more open floor plans into a complex of modern buildings in the same general area. The vision is “a bustling, modern campus atmosphere, loosely centralized around the evolving 4200 complex and its counterpart to the south, the 4600 engineering complex,” Smith said. A greenway connecting the two will encourage walking from complex to complex.
Marshall’s historical preservation officer Scott Worley agreed in his own post. “If we had a choice between renovating an aging building or funding a bold new mission to the outer planets, we’d pick the mission every time,” Worley said.
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