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Narrator: A facility full of platforms that once fit NASA's space shuttles like a glove is transitioning to

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make room for a new fleet of low-Earth orbit bound vehicles.

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The Boeing Company's CST-100 spacecraft.

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Chuck Hardison: Phase 1, which is happening now, is the demolition phase where we're removing the

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old orbiter processing stands and the old space shuttle main engine processing stands.

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The second phase is our modernization phase where we'll put all of the facility infrastructure in for our

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clean factory concept.

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Narrator: The project at the newly named C3PF, short for Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing

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Facility, began as an innovative partnership between NASA's Kennedy Space Center and Space Florida

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to give excess government facilities a new purpose.

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Frank DiBello: There is an emerging commercial space industry that even NASA will depend in part on

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for transport of its cargo and astronauts back and forth to the station and other destinations

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in low-Earth orbit.

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Narrator: Boeing is one of three companies working with NASA's Commercial Crew Program to develop

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integrated spacecraft and launch vehicle systems for the United States.

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All three have chosen to base launch operations along Florida's Space Coast.

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Frank DiBello: Location, location and location. If you can be building your spacecraft close to the point of

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launch, you gain significant advantage in the marketplace.

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Narrator: The CST-100 is designed to lift off atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket

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from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 41, a little more than 7 miles from the C3PF.

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Chuck Hardison: It will leave right from this facility straight to the launch vehicle for integration.

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Narrator: Boeing is on track to take up residency at Kennedy in the summer of 2013,

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bringing with it about 550 engineering and technical jobs.