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Commitments and Contingencies (Details Narrative) (USD $)
 1 Months Ended 6 Months Ended
Feb. 28, 2013
Jan. 31, 2013
Dec. 31, 2013
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]      
Loss contingency, allegations On February 20, 2013, a shareholder derivative lawsuit was filed in the District Court of Travis County, Texas against the current directors and chief executive officer of Astrotech Corporation and against the Company, as nominal defendant. The complaint alleges, among other things, that the directors and chief executive officer breached fiduciary duties to the Company in connection with certain corporate transactions, including loans to subsidiaries and purchases of outstanding shares of the Company's common stock. On January 10, 2013, a lawsuit was filed against Astrotech Corporation by John Porter, the former Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary of the Company. Mr. Porter alleges various breaches of contract claims in connection with his termination from the Company on August 3, 2012. Astrotech has been named as a party to a suit filed in the Circuit Court of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit for Brevard County, Florida. This is an action for foreclosure of certain real estate and for debt. The Company is named as a party because it holds an inferior lien against the property at issue and must be named in the foreclosure action. No monetary relief has been requested against Astrotech.
Loss contingency, damages sought   $ 639,808  
Contingent obligation, lease     ASO presently leases the 60-acre site located on VAFB in California, where we own four buildings totaling over 50,000 square feet of space. The Company has extended the original land lease, which expired in September 2013. The new lease expires in September 2018, with provisions to extend the lease at the request of the lessee and the concurrence of the lessor. Upon final expiration of the land lease, all improvements on the property revert, at the lessor's option, to the lessor at no cost or we will be required to return the land to the original condition at our cost.