( CNN ) -- Florida authorities are investigating the death of a custodian whose body was found at a launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday afternoon , NASA reported . The man , whose identity was not released , was found in a storage building near a liquid oxygen tank at pad 39A , one of the sites from which Apollo and space shuttle missions were launched , the space agency said . The pad leader discovered the body , and paramedics were unable to revive the man , NASA said . No cause of death was released Tuesday afternoon . The man worked for the Brevard Achievement Center , which has a contract at the Cape Canaveral site . The center , which places people with disabilities in jobs , said it was `` deeply saddened '' by the news and extended its sympathy to the man 's family .
The man was found dead at NASA 's Kennedy Space Center . Neither his identity nor a cause of death was released publicly . NASA says the pad leader dumped the body .