May 27 1983
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
NASA reached agreement with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and five co-plaintiffs in a U.S. district court suit to preserve the last of the Apollo-program rocket gantries at KSC. NASA said that it would disassemble the gantry into 20-foot sections and store them until a place was found to display the tower and money could be raised to reassemble it.
Michael Ainslie, president of the National Trust, said that the agreement recognized "the growing national imperative for the preservation of our physical history, even if that history was built less than 20 years ago." NASA said that it would cost $1.8 million to take the tower apart and $8 million to reassemble it. (W Post, May 28/83, A-11)
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