Dive Brief:
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NASA plans to spend billions of dollars demolishing, replacing and updating the 700 structures at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Along with a $65 million, seven-story headquarters building, the multibillion-dollar project includes the building of a new rocket and spacecraft that will go to Mars.
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As buildings are demolished, most of the waste will be recycled for use in other government building projects.
Dive Insight:
The center’s director said the effort to make the facility run more efficiently will, in the end, save the government upward of $5 million a year.