Boeing has announced plans to lease the hangar that housed the space shuttles to build commercial crafts that will bring people and cargo to space at the Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida.
Space Florida, the aerospace economic development agency of the state of Florida, is leasing the Orbiter Processing Facility-3 to the Boeing Company to manufacture and test the company's Crew Space Transportation (CST-100) spacecraft. This will create hundreds of jobs along the Space Coast. The 15-year use permit deal is the latest step Kennedy is making as the center transitions from its government-only launch complex to a multi-user spaceport. The deal is expected to create 140 jobs in the next 18 months, and up to 550 jobs by 2015. More on Boeing at KSC.
