Alabama NewsCenter — Rockets go up, building comes down; NASA implodes historic HQ in Huntsville, Alabama

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

NASA is famous for sending rockets up into space. But this past weekend in Huntsville, it took down a piece of its history in a spectacular way.

Building 4200, the Marshall Space Flight Center’s administrative headquarters from 1963 until 2020, came down in a cloud of dust following an implosion Oct. 29. The demise of Building 4200, where NASA housed every Marshall center director, including its first, Wernher von Braun, makes way for a series of new, “state-of-the-art facilities tailored to help NASA map out the next century’s worth of discoveries in space,” the agency said.

The 11-story, curtain-wall structure was designed by the Fort Worth, Texas, architectural firm Wyatt C. Hendrick and completed in 1963. Following the Marshall Center’s formal establishment on July 1, 1960, the new NASA center found itself in desperate need of office space.

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