NASA's Space Shuttle Launch Pad 39B recycled into water and sewer pipe

Lauch Pad 39B is being dismantled and taken to the scrapyard. It's a historic tower, that saw launches from Apollo and Ares. It's first shuttle launch was the ill-fated Challenger that killed seven astronauts. In this video, see the 4500 tons of steel make it's journey to it's next life.

[PhantomDrums]

Cut it down into smaller pieces and sell it off as souvenirs for space collectors and enthusiasts. Use the money for the Challenger Center and send more young people to college for science and engineering. I would have bought a piece of this in a heartbeat.

[aval]

they should've kept them as a tourist attraction

[saints]

If you ask me, I'd say that it's wrong to dismantle history like Launch Pad 39B at KSC, it should be preserved AS IT WAS when it was in use for the Space Shuttle flights, this is cruelty to see history destroyed. :(

[geomodelrailroader]

@saints093 Pad B had to be destroyed we have new rockets coming in order to get them to use the pad the launch towers that existed from Post Apollo to Post Shuttle have to be torn down the newer rockets use different hookup then the shuttle and can be only be rolled out when it is time to launch.

[anneth]

Woo Hoo Recycling! At least it's not being dumped in the ocean like they used to do and they are saving important pieces of it. You can't just let it sit there and rust.