One of the persistent problems with NASA in general - and NASA headquarters in particular - is that the bureaucracy proper often does not take seriously our legal mandate to promote the use of commercial space to the maximum extent practical. In the case of Florida's request for land at Kennedy Space Center to help the state create a commercial launch complex ["Florida, NASA Wrangling Over Spaceport Real Estate," Feb. 4, page 9], it appears the agency has no planned use for this property, other than to let it sit there, and there is at least one valid commercial space purpose it can be put to. Yet the agency uses as one excuse that the property has not yet been listed as "excess" as a reason to possibly do nothing at all.
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