Mark E. Kelly, is in space commanding the space shuttle Endeavour.
Commercial office space commands as much as $50 a square foot and library spots are pretty much spoken for.
Brokers say that prebuilt space commands premium rents, to reflect the owners' investments, and that space in move-in condition rents more quickly than empty floors.
The space, commanding a 360-degree panorama nearly 1,250 feet above street level, would be served by as many as five express elevators.
The Uptown area has 1.6 million square feet of Class A space commanding $23 to $28 a square foot, and 1.1 million square feet of Class B space that runs $18 to $23 a square foot.
Colonel Gidzenko, 38, an astronaut since 1989, spent more than 180 days in space commanding the Euromir-95 mission, a joint effort with the European Space Agency that started in September 1995.
That always gets a big laugh, because people know the other things you've accomplished — things like spending a year in space, commanding the Space Shuttle, and landing the F-14 Tomcat on an aircraft carrier.
But what spells success for Levels 3 and 4?" Annual rents reflect the preference for the lower floors, with ground-floor space commanding about $150 to $175 a square foot and rent dropping to $75 to $125 on the second floor, local brokers said.
Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, is in the meantime still holding up the nomination of Lt. Gen. Susan Helms of the Air Force to become vice commander of the United States Space Command because General Helms overturned a jury conviction in a sexual assault case without public explanation.
His father retired as a Navy captain and was stationed in Germany, where he was the American space command's liaison officer to the commander in chief of the European command.
It will take two years more to pull the satellites out of orbit, the space command said.
