It\u2019s an out-of-this-world opportunity! <\/p>\n
An abandoned NASA campus in North Carolina went on the market for $30 million and offers a \u201cready-made getaway to the stars\u201d across the staggering 192-acre property, according to an online listing.<\/p>\n
The shuttered base, constructed in 1963 at the height of the Space Race against the Soviet Union, served as a satellite tracking facility and even helped capture the first-ever images of Earth from the cosmos, according to a\u00a0listing<\/a>\u00a0posted on NAI Piedmont Triad.<\/p>\n A shuttered NASA campus in North Carolina is on the market for $30 million. WLOS<\/p>\n It was also used by the National Security Agency as a key satellite communications hub during the Cold War, according to the listing.<\/p>\n The campus, dubbed the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute, sprawls across 192 acres and features more than 30 buildings \u2014 including a welcome center, library, exhibits, a retrofitted 200-person cafeteria, and dorms to house the staff.<\/p>\n The campus includes 192 acres of land surrounded by half a million more acres of protected forests. Piedmont Triad<\/p>\n The property also comes readily equipped with an array of antiquated scientific and technological assets, including 25 optical telescopes, a planetarium, dish antennas, data centers, laboratories, and radio arrays, according to the listing.<\/p>\n To top it off, a breathtaking 500,000 acres of protected woodlands that are part of the Pisgah National Forest in Transylvania County are also included in the $30 million. <\/p>\n \u201cAll of us are excited about it just because we\u2019ve never seen anything like it and probably never will,\u201d Robbie Perkins, Market President at NAI Piedmont Triad, told WLOS<\/a>.<\/p>\n