Could you use a mobile rocket launcher platform dating to the Apollo program? NASA wants to lease or give away three of the huge steel platforms which held rockets and shuttles before they blasted into space.
The mobile launcher platforms are two stories tall, 160 feet long and 135 feet wide. Each of them weigh eight million pounds.After the shuttle program ended in 2011, NASA doesn't need the platforms anymore- but it can't afford to refurbish or dispose of them.
Steve Parker of Kennedy Space Center says ideally NASA will lease them to a commercial company that will carry on the space agency's missions to low Earth orbit.
"And we're also interested if somebody has some other off-the-wall uses. If somebody wants to preserve it for museum use or sink it and make a reef out of it, we're interested in that information."
The solicitation is part of NASA's goal to transform Kennedy into a multi-user space port
The agency also plans to lease out an old shuttle launch pad, and it's in talks about giving up oversight of the runway.