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Kathryn Lee once worked on the space shuttle. Now, she’s working at historic old Hangar N at Cape Canaveral for Par Systems, an engineering company.
Outside, the hangar’s paint may be peeling, but it’s what’s on the inside now that matters. People are at work on high-tech equipment, and not necessarily for a government program. Now they’re working to make money.
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Par Systems makes equipment that looks for hidden flaws in metals or other material.
Finding those hidden flaws could, for example, prevent a plane crash or maybe a building collapse.
Par Systems makes a lot of things, but what it’s doing at Cape Canaveral is one step toward a recovery from the end of the space shuttle era.
“Because of this type of agreement at KSC, the first of many to come, it will open up the Space Coast to more and more commercial businesses,” said Robert Salonea, Economic Development Commission spokesman.
The company is preserving talent and experience that will be needed again for NASA’s planned super rocket and Orion spacecraft.
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“You’re keeping a core capability alive here at the Cape. That’s critical to our future,” said Bob Cabana, Kennedy Space Center director.
Hangar N, with its nine Par employees, is one of several government buildings now transitioning to the spaceport of the future.
Published at Thu, 03 Apr 2014 11:38:00 +0000
