Posted on 02/21/2018 10:03:25 AM PST by Red Badger
That was caused by Global Warming.
They need to call RamJack.
That’s the first picture of the Leaning Tower of Pisa I’ve seen that didn’t have somebody’s hand trying to hold it up.
Enough material there to build a horizontal rail and ramp launcher.
Seems they could sue the builder or designer.
I think the seed money for SpaceX was less than the cost of this defective rocket holder.
Is “gantry” too big a vocabulary word for Avery?
its called the Clinton
I think the problem is every bid to build the thing goes to the lowest bidder. :-(
This is such a dismissive, nothing to see here, article. Wouldn’t you think somebody should be held accountable for a very expensive mistake??
The Owner chose the site. The engineers probably asked how much do you want to spend for placing this on geologic subgrade that will become unstable once the weight of the structure is imposed.
It might be straight enough for any normal purpose but plumb enough for a ZZZZ pound rocket and the accompanying thrust in another matter — which is probably the issue here.
The Apollo program built a mobile launch platform that could carry a fully assembled Apollo stack from the vehicle assembly building out to the launch pad, including up an incline so that at the end, the launcher and rocket climbed eight stories up to the actial launch pad. It could do this without the tip of the rocket moving outside a circle the diameter of a tennis ball. Then it wss reused for the space shuttle. Made in the 1960s. With slide rules.
In the GOVERNMENT??????..........................
Without NASA, who is going to do muslim outreach?
I agree, wasn’t poor engineering it was a dumb spot to try to build it.
“This is such a dismissive, nothing to see here, article. Wouldn’t you think somebody should be held accountable for a very expensive mistake??”
Did anyone ever take any heat for Hubble’s crappy mirror?
The road was built for the Apollo program and continued to be used for the shuttle.
Without NASA, who is going to do muslim outreach?
$912 million? Less than the cost of 2 Solyndras. If it gets one launch, government will consider it a bargain. /s
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