I don't think these are that similar. (Destiny)

by Funkmon , Monday, June 15, 2015, 15:33 (3689 days ago) @ Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)

Considering that is a super busy spaceport. It's, AFAIK, the busiest spaceport in the world, just beating out Cape Canaveral. Imagine if there was a massive abandoned hangar at the Cape with some Ares I rockets lying around like that. That would be strange.

Not so strange after all. Old article from 2012, but still there were units at the KSC that sat vacant. It's not even a new problem; lots of Gemini and Apollo facilites are abandoned too.

-- Steve thinks the only reason Pad 39a (launch pad for the Moon landings) isn't a museum is that NASA leased it to SpaceX for the cash.

The second article is a little bit old. From what I remembered, and can tell from still looking from news articles, most of the spots have been leased, or are still for sale but not abandoned. Things being "at risk" of being abandoned is very different from these things actually being abandoned.

The things that are in that first article are not abandoned. Most of them are museums or open as historical things open for touring, though one is a launch pad no longer used (which makes sense, since those need to be modified to be used for different platforms), which is also very different than an entire hangar stuffed with old junk basically left to rot for a photographer to take pictures of.

I think that is weird.