Watch NASA demolish one of its buildings in Alabama on Saturday

You can watch the destruction of the building on Saturday.

Building 4200 was the administrative headquarters of Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama from 1962 to 2020. It's coming down to make 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 demolition can be watched live at Space.com or via NASA TV. At 8 a.m., the webcast will start. It is not clear when it will end.

Building 4200 was supposed to be updated in the year 2030. NASA decided to demolish Building 4200 instead of repairing and maintaining it because of structural problems in the wall panels.

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Agency officials said that the decision tugs a lot of heartstrings. Thousands of Marshall team members lived in the building. Dr. Wernher von Braun, who led rocket development in the 1960's and 70's, is one of the 14 directors.

The historic preservation team at Marshall, NASA's lead center for rocketry and propulsion research, is working with the agency's History Office and the Alabama State Historic Preservation Office to safeguard Building 4200's history.

The Library of Congress' Historical American Building Survey and Historical American Engineering Record contains thousands of photos, videos and other documents.

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