NASA’s headquarters sold
The building that has been NASA’s headquarters for 26 years is being purchased by a South Korean company for about $400 million.
It doesn’t appear NASA is moving, since their lease continues until 2029. This deal appears to be simply a real estate deal between different office building companies.
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The building that has been NASA’s headquarters for 26 years is being purchased by a South Korean company for about $400 million.
It doesn’t appear NASA is moving, since their lease continues until 2029. This deal appears to be simply a real estate deal between different office building companies.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Why is NASA’s headquarters not owned by the government? I was shocked to hear your report this on the radio.
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I believe Washington DC is the second largest market for office-space in the Country. (outside of NYC) ((It’s a boom-town, which is a huge problem in and of itself, but a topic for another day.))
You don’t really want the Fed’s to actually own the buildings they use– it’s more efficient & less-costly for the Feds to lease space from private developers, and they in-turn assume all the risk of being a landlord to the Feds.
(as long as the GSA pays market-rate rent & there aren’t any sweetheart crony deals, everything is actually OK and nothing devious is going on.)
>Boston Properties Inc., (Mort Zuckerman) was the original developer/owner, although I don’t know if they are the ones who sold to the S. Koreans.
(I’d be willing to bet, your Pension Fund owns bits of Boston Properties & other real-estate investment trusts, who lease space to Local/State/Federal government operations.)
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Personally– I’d highly recommend “Genesis, the Story of Apollo 8,” for yourself, and possibly getting the “Chronological Encyclopedia of Discoveries in Space,” as a reference-book. (Bought a copy for my G-Daughter.)
Either way– hope to see your name pop up in the discussion thread going forward!