NASA is focusing its 50 years of launch experience on hardware and systems that will revolutionize future processing and liftoffs. Instead of developing complex infrastructure centered on one vehicle, the 21st Century Ground Support Systems Program is building facilities, launch platforms and other structures that assemble, prepare and launch many kinds of rockets and spacecraft. The approach is expected to make NASA's Kenendy Space Center a multi-use spaceport suitable for commercial missions, sending astronauts to the International Space Station and eventually flights to distant space destinations including Mars.

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