Abandoned space shuttle tank

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00:00Located in Green Cove Springs, just south of Jacksonville, sits this abandoned Space Shuttle fuel tank.

00:06Now why is it here?

00:07Word has it that this was a test tank for the space program,

00:10then was put on display in Huntsville, Alabama at Nusser-Marshall Space Flight Center from 1977 to 1.

00:17Then moved to Stenny Space Center in Mississippi,

00:20and then was on display from 1997 to 2013 at Kennedy Space Center.

00:24But after the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011, Nuss announced that they would remove the test fuel tank

00:31to make room for the retired Space Shuttle Atlantis, along with a new exhibition facility.

00:36There were two winning bids.

00:37The first after winning decided it wouldn't be worth the transportation fees and headache to take it to California.

00:42The second was able to get it to the port,

00:45then found that it would be incredibly hard to get it to its final destination in Keystone Heights, Florida.

00:50The logistics of moving such a massive structure proved difficult,

00:53and that temporary staging site seems to have become the fuel tank's final home.