Posted 10/28/22

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is preparing to say goodbye to a historic facility… one where visionary engineers pioneered the first human missions to the Moon.

Building 4200, Marshall’s administrative headquarters' from 1963 until 2020, is scheduled for demolition October 29th, helping to make way for a series of new, state-of-the-art facilities tailored to help NASA map out the next century’s worth of discoveries in space.

Building 4200 had been in line for an update in 2030 as part of NASA’s repair-by-replacement approach by tearing down costly old structures and replacing them with energy-efficient new facilities. However, that timeframe was accelerated in 2020 when structural issues were identified in the building’s exterior wall panels. Given its age and the cost of repairing and maintaining it, NASA chose to deactivate and demolish 4200.